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#1

“Who am I, when all I’ve ever believed myself to be, is fading before my very eyes?
Am I still me, or just a shadow of what I used to be?
Was I just an illusion that lived only in my head?
Did I paint myself as something more than I really am?
And with all these changes in my life…
What will be left of the woman who dreamed her dreams?
When all the colors that she wrapped herself with… are slowly being stripped away…

Copyright © Eeva Lancaster”
― Eeva Lancaster

tags: alopecia, ebook, finding-yourself, losing, memoir, self, self-love, self-worth

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#2

“...cause it was hard... so much harder... when I couldn't live with me.”
― Eeva Lancaster, In Loving You - A Journey of Love and Self Discovery

tags: eeva-lancaster, filipino-authors, in-loving-you, inspirational, inspiraton, love, love-poems, love-poetry, philippines, poetry, poetry-love, romance, romantic-poetry, romantic-poets, sadness-loneliness, self-help

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#3

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence

tags: dh-lawrence, self-pity

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#4

“Don't be afraid of Pain. Pain only comes down to a certain point... beyond that, it can't reach you and the love you have inside.”
― Eeva Lancaster, In Loving You - A Journey of Love and Self Discovery

tags: poetry, poetry-life, poetry-love, poetry-quotes, romance, self-help, young-adult-romance

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#5

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: inspirational, life

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#6

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: excellence, inspirational

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#7

“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart

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#8

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

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#9

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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#10

“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves. No matter what corruption they're taught about the virtue of selflessness, sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts, an act which they cannot perform for any motive but their own enjoyment - just try to think of performing it in a spirit of selfless charity! - an act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self-exultation, only on the confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire. It is an act that forces them to stand naked in spirit, as well as in body, and accept their real ego as their standard of value. They will always be attracted to the person who reflects their deepest vision of themselves, the person whose surrender permits them to experience - or to fake - a sense of self-esteem .. Love is our response to our highest values - and can be nothing else.”
― Ayn Rand

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#11

“I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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#12

“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: self-acceptance, self-awareness

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#13

“Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.”
― Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

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#14

“The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.”
― John Lubbock, Peace and Happiness

tags: haven, heaven, hell, inspirational, motivational, personality, prison, punishment, repose, sanctuary, science, self-determination, solitude, value

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#15

“The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be to fall to the same low level. After all, even in prison, a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be untroubled. He can be at peace. And, above all things, they are not to interfere with other people or judge them in any way. Personality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. He may keep the law, and yet be worthless. He may break the law, and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad. He may commit a sin against society, and yet realize through that sin his true perfection.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

tags: abuse, freedom, oscar, personality, prison, soul, soul-of-a-man, violence, wilde

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#16

“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

tags: behavior, evil, personality

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#17

“I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

tags: charlotte-eriksson, complicated, fate, identity, life, person, personality, reason, self, songwriter, the-glass-child, writer, young

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#18

“Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: artist, artistic, comparison, different, freedom, future, gifted, gifts, goals, god-s-plan, happiness, jobs, joy, love, on-the-edge, personality, radical, reach-higher, rise-above, road-less-traveled, screenplay, talents, television, unique

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#19

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

tags: birds, freedom, friends, friendship, letting-go

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#20

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight

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#21

“The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: freedom, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-quotes, life-and-living, society, unhappiness, unhappy-life

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#22

“She said it quite correctly; there was nothing offensive in the quiet politeness of her voice; but following his high note of enthusiasm, her voice struck a tone that seemed flat and deadly in its indifference—as if the two sounds mingled into an audible counterpoint around the melodic thread of her contempt.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: contempt, dominique-francon, indifference, politeness, the-fountainhead

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#23

“Be the flame, not the moth.”
― Giacomo Casanova

tags: passion, self-destruction

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#24

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: atlas, shrugged

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#25

“Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: career, inspiration, life

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#26

“Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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#27

“If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fact and it has cost you nothing. But if you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty. To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake - and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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#28

“People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.”
― Ayn Rand

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#29

“I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: compromise, philosophy

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#30

“Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: business, character, currency, deal-terms, love, people, virtue

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