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“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
― William Arthur Ward

“Power isn’t control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
― Harry S. Truman

“The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”
― Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

“The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves