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This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith - a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self.
— Thomas Monson
We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.
— Albert Camus
The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self.
— Deepak Chopra
Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.
— Mark Twain
Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.
— Mark Twain
Outside influences, outside circumstances, wind the MAN and regulate him. Left to himself, he wouldn't get regulated at all, and the sort of time he would keep would not be valuable. Some rare men are wonderful watches, with gold case, compensation balance, and all those things, and some men are only simple and sweet and humble Waterburys. I am a Waterbury.
— Mark Twain
There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it sometimes.
— Mark Twain
you will change your mind; You will change your looks; You will change your smile,laugh, and ways but no matter what you change, you will always be you
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love yourself, if that means rational, healthy, and moral self-interest. You are commanded to do that. That is the length of life. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. You are commanded to do that. That is the breadth of life. But never forget that there is a first and even greater commandment, Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and all thy soul and all thy mind. This is the height of life. And when you do this you live the complete life.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings[1]
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Astrology provides a brilliant proof of the miserable subjectivity of human beings, as a result of which they relate everything to themselves and go from every thought in a straight line immediately back to themselves. It relates the course of the great celestial bodies to the pathetic I, as it also connects the comets in the sky with earthly quarrels and shabby tricks.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
it is worthy of consideration, indeed marvelous, how besides his life in concreto, a person always leads a second in abstracto as well.
— Arthur Schopenhauer