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When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else? you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being. Eleanor Roosevelt
I just keep wishing, I could think of a way, to show to them that they don't own me. That if I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me. Does that make sense? Yeah. I just can't afford to think that way. Suzanne Collins
William Shakespeare quote: "To thy own self be true"
To thy own self be true William Shakespeare
But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry (of life) will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge of the world that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate. Cormac McCarthy
If he'd known how long he was going to spend in the airport lounge of his own life, he'd have made different travel arrangements.. Nick Hornby
My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my favour. Auberon Waugh
Got a kick for a dog. Beggin' for Love. I gotta have my suffering. So that I can have my cross. I know a cat named Easter. He says will you ever learn. You're just an empty cage girl. If you kill the bird. I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streetslooking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets. I've been raising up my hands. Drive another nail in. Got enough guilt to startmy own religion Tori Amos
People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. It’s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name. Bob Dylan
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life. Awakening from the stupefying effects of the vice of over-industry and the deadly apathy of luxury, they are trying as best they can to mix and enrich their own little ongoings with those of Nature, and to get... John Muir
The Americans have always been better than the Iraqis at the leaflets. Early on in the first Gulf War, Iraqi PsyOps dropped a batch of their own leaflets on US troops, designed to be psychologically devastating. They read, 'Your wives are back at home having sex with Bart Simpson and Burt Reynolds. Jon Ronson
Oh, Will," she said, "what can we do? Whatever can we do? I want to live with you forever. I want to kiss you and lie down with you and wake up with you every day of my life till I die, years and years and years away. I don't want a memory, just a memor?"No," he said, "memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I didn't know I could ever love anything so much. Oh, Lyra, I wish this night would never end! If only we could stay here like... Philip Pullman
You look right out into the high place and see the great dance with your own eyes. You live always in that terror and that delight. C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis quote: "There are dozens of ways to give people a bad time if you are..."
There are dozens of ways to give people a bad time if you are in your own home and they are only visitors. C. S. Lewis
It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own. Vita Sackville-West
Tove Jansson quote: "But he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he..."
But he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he had never had a book of his own before. Tove Jansson

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