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“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”

“It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”

“Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.”

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.”

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.”

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”

“All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.”

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”

“It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!”

“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.”

“When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. [...] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love.”

“Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.”