“If you hate a person you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
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Harper Lee
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Confucius
3 quotes“He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection.”
Deepak Chopra
3 quotes“Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.”
Osho
3 quotes“The mystery is solved when you have become the mystery itself.”
Richard Rohr
3 quotes“Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
3 quotes“And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.”
C.S. Lewis
3 quotes“When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.”
Arthur Miller
3 quotes“The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within.”
Fernando Pessoa
3 quotes“From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I”
Marcus Aurelius
3 quotes“For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”
Frida Kahlo
2 quotes“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.”
E.M. Forster
2 quotes“How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?”