If we hold onto our own ideas of how things should be rather than accepting how they really are, we arise conflict in ourselves in the form of defensiveness.

Carl Rogers

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However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the soul is there and is never injured. We are that infinite.

Swami Vivekananda

Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you.

Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.

Paramahansa Yogananda

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

Freedom begins between the ears.

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