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A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings. – Christina G. Rossetti

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When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself. – Deepak Chopra

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Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. – Buddha

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Each one of us is alone in the world… We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

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The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. – Michel de Montaigne, Of Solitude

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