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  It is better to be disliked for being who you are than to be loved for who you are not.

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  Sherry Argov

  Principles

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart”

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• First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and trembling. We can help one another to find the meaning of life no doubt. But in the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. You cannot tell me who I am and I cannot tell you who you are. If you do not know your own identity, who is going to identify you?

  Thomas Merton

  Responsibility, Destiny, Men

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

  Deb Caletti

  Space, Looks, Empty

  Deb Caletti (2004). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Hurt, Real, Used

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• Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Names, People

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.45, A&C Black

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• My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?" "I don't mind at all" I said. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

  Roald Dahl

  Love You, Long, Mind

  Roald Dahl (1983). “The Witches”, Vintage

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• The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

  Abraham Verghese

  Motivational, Destiny, Keys

  "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese, www.sfgate.com. 2009.

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• Hey, this is it—right now!—the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff?

  Jerry Spinelli

  Trying, Hey, Stuff

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• When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will show on your face and change it. But sad only for others, not for yourself. You will feel you have a kind of wisdom, very mistaken, but a mistake of some power to you and so you will sadly treasure it and grow it.

  Lorrie Moore

  Mistake, Treasure, Faces

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• I think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what is good or bad, worthy to be judged or set free, beautiful or ugly to begin with. Why not get your glory from God? Why not accept your feelings of redemption because of His pleasure in you, not the fickle and empty favor of man? And only then will you know who you are, and only then will you have true, uninhibited relationships with others.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Running, Jesus

  "Searching for God Knows What". Book by Donald Miller, October 13, 2004.

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• Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find out which principles you'll stand by to your death--and which lines you'll cross." He took my empty glass away and said, "You're heading into the badlands. It'll be easy to get lost.

  Jim Butcher

  Glasses, Principles, Lines

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.12, Penguin

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• Well, then, if I admit I know who you are and really couldn’t care less will that assuage your damaged manhood enough that we can get past this and move on to something that ends with your giving me a sandwich? (Leta)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Moving, Past, Giving

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• You're going to spend more time with yourself than with anyone else in your life. You want to spend that whole time fighting who you are?

  Alex Sanchez

  Fighting, Want, More Time

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• Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?

  Paullina Simons

  Believe, Three, Knows

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• There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Choices

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.25, A&C Black

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• I'm sorry." "Be sorry you lied," he said, pressing a kiss to my forehead. "Don't be sorry you loved him. That's part of you, part you have to let go, yeah, but still something that's made you who you are.

  Richelle Mead

  Letting Go, Sorry, Kissing

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.116, Penguin

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• If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.

  Masaru Emoto

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Being Strong

  Masaru Emoto (2005). “The Secret Life of Water”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• No one particular religion has been able to secure the exclusive rights for the power of prayer. No matter who you are, we all have the ability to take advantage of this amazing and wonderful power. Once you realize this, you will then be filled with the desire to help others realize this as well. More and more people are resonating with this understanding, and this could result in a more wonderful future for mankind. (165)

  Masaru Emoto

  Prayer, Helping Others, Rights

  Masaru Emoto (2010). “The Secret Life of Water”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• These things...they are who you are. They brought you here. To this day. You didn't give me a chance to understand that ever the unattractive parts of you, the messy parts, were something I could accept.

  Laura Dave

  Giving, Unattractive, Give Me A Chance

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• We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.

  John Green

  Real, World, Weird Things

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• Do you hate me because I have magic?" "Of course not." "Do you love me despite my magic?" He thought a minute. "No. I love everything about you, and your magic is part of you. That was how I got past the Confessor's magic. If I had loved you despite your power, I wouldn't have been accepting you for who you are. Your magic would have destroyed me.

  Terry Goodkind

  Hate, Past, Magic

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• [True beauty] seeps into you. It doesn't make you forget yourself, but totally the opposite. It connects you with everything and fills you with awe that you share the same space with something that glorious. Like a sunrise or a clear blue day or the most extraordinary piece of glass. And then suddenly...you have this epiphany that there's more to the world than just you and what you want or even who you are.

  Justina Chen

  Glasses, Blue, Opposites

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• Remember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile. The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won't be found at the bottom) Don't sweat the small stuff, You are who you are meant to be, Dance as if no one's watching, Love as if it's all you know, Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today

  James Dean

  Dream, Regret, Life Is Short

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• You're going to come across a lot of shitty band, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone of those people call you names beacause of what you look like or they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherf*****, stick up your middle finger, and scream F*** YOU!

  Gerard Way

  Names, People, Looks

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• No problem, but just know that no one steals from Nero. He knows who you are and he will hunt you down and make you pay in ways you can’t imagine – including this whole brain squeeze thing he does that will leave you with a migraine so bad, you’ll wish you could bleed out your eyes to stop the pain. He’s nasty that way. (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Eye, Brain

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Fire”, p.447, Macmillan

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