The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIn the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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Cat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.’
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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’ And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.’
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Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it – One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
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