Quote by Jessamyn West
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one st

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? – Jessamyn West

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There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. – Jessamyn West

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Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self. – Ralph Marston

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American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success. – Rand Paul

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Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasnt that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you. – Marilyn Monroe

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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people. – John McEnroe

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That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it…. We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. – Paracelsus, quoted in The Dream Game

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We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we dont know we have it. – Shakti Gawain

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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, — Necessity and Free Will. – Thomas Carlyle, Essays, “The Opera”

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