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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

Anais Nin

My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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Acceptance Appearance Choose Love Mission Peace Talent Worry
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Experience Inspirational Master One Liner Pain Secret
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Adversity Defeat Endure Inspirational Life Lose Stumble Suffering
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Blossom Morning Pain Risk
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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Emphasize Ideas Loneliness People Reality Satisfaction
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Life Moments Taste Writing
I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Break Up Broken Heart Call Hairs I Hate You Restless Stars
Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Explore Prejudice Protection Strength Weakness Willing
I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Allow Creature Enough Occurance Wings
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Freedom Imagination Reality Transcend Try
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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Admire Confidence Dare Herself Lack Reflection She Woman
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Age Birthday Love Protect
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Combination Death Failure Kindness Life People Process
We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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Cruel Judgement Play Refuse Relationship Role
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Believe Change Deep Influence Inspirational Life Ourselves Revolution
No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Carry Force Fulfillment

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