The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame.

Mark Manson

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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Tallulah Bankhead

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. Have the courage to follow your own heart and intuition.

Do less. Be more.

Failure is a great teacher, if you're open to it.

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Usually people don't see beyond the surface of things and cannot understand more other than the obvious; they are used to judging a book by its cover, and that is why they don't hesitate to bully.

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