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Quote by James Baldwin
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. - Jame

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. – James Baldwin

Other quotes by James Baldwin

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. – James Baldwin

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Change
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James Baldwin
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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. – James Baldwin

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Belief
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James Baldwin
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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. – James Baldwin

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Charity
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Other Quotes from
Self-Discovery
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Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves. – William Shakespeare, “Coriolanus”

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Self-Discovery

There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Self-Discovery

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, Flight to Arras, 1942

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Self-Discovery

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. – H.W. Shaw

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Self-Discovery

Random Quotes

Western laziness…. consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time left to confront the real issues. – Sogyal Rinpoche, Glimpse After Glimpse: Daily Reflections on Living and Dying

Category:
Society

Happiness is breathlessly chasing you. – Terri Guillemets

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Happiness

It is not worth singing for ourselves; it is nicer if two people sing together. Then more people: hundreds, thousands, until the huge Harmony can be heard, in which we can all be just one, indeed. Then will we be able to say: – Zolt

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Singing

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. – Dalai Lama

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Religion