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• powerful
• humanity
• believe

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will Joseph Stalin

• you me
• let me be me
• dared

I dare you to let me be your one and only. Adele

• may
• ours
• one on one

We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees. J. R. R. Tolkien

• men
• bad
• badly

There are no bad herbs or bad men; there are only bad cultivators. Victor Hugo

• trust
• grandma
• which

Mahad had done wrong, but I had been unforgivably trusting, which meant I was fatally dense. I had failed to be suspicious. I deserved my grandma's scorn. I was not allowed to talk back to Grandma, and Ma said nothing to defend me. I could only sob, and seethe. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

• acceptance
• rejection
• truthfulness

WE ONLY ACCEPT A TRUTH AFTER WE HAVE FIRST WHOLEHEARTEDLY REJECTED IT Paulo Coelho

• road
• saying
• thinking

The worl is ful of things waiting to happen. Thats the meat and boan of it right there. You myt think you can jus go here and there doing nothing. Happening nothing. You cant tho you bleeding cant. You put your self on any road and some thing wil show its self to you. Wanting to happen. Waiting to happen. You myt say, 'I dont want to know.' But 1ce its showt its self to you you wil know wont you. You cant not know no mor. There it is and working in you. You myt try to put a farness be twean... Russell Hoban

• play
• little
• madman

A madman is not less a musician than you or myself; only the instrument on which he plays is a little out of tune. Khalil Gibran

• road
• motivational
• influence

In association with the ordinary run of men I have had but little to win or to lose ... My companions have with few exceptions exerted no marked influence on me ... So I am standing once more at the point where I must begin in another way. I shall now try to look calmly at myself and begin to act inwardly; for only in this way will I be able ... to call myself 'I' in a profounder sense ... So let the die be cast - I am crossing the Rubicon. This road no doubt leads me into battle, but I will... Soren Kierkegaard

• charming
• charm
• thing

- he could do charming things, if only he had known how to finish them! Edith Wharton

• learning
• daily
• warrior

The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue Carlos Castaneda

• look
• great
• question

It is of great consequence to have previously determined the concept that one wants to elucidate through observation before questioning experience about it; for one finds in experience what one needs only if one knows in advance what to look for. Immanuel Kant

• end
• greatness
• wisdom

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds. Napoleon Bonaparte

• lies
• notices
• others

It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying. Marcel Proust

• hope
• hopeful
• i can

I can only hope he's an Aries and not a Scorpio. Candace Bushnell