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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Adjustment Inspirational Myself World
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
One handles truths like dynamite.
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Handle Inspirational One Liner Truth
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Experiment Life Marriage Mistake Right
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Life Moments Taste Writing
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Effort Inspirational Live
No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Carry Force Fulfillment
The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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Breathe Inspirational Life Secret Want
Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Explanation Love Reason Seek Solution
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
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Beautiful Goodness Luxury Minimalism Necessary
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
It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Charity Freedom Gain Help
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Happiness Ill Joy Peace Serenity
Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Clouds Destroy Inspirational Sky
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Kill Knowledge Mystery Possession Sense Wonder

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

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