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...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

…to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.
– Virginia Woolf

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  2. Self-love is having appreciation for oneself, respecting oneself, and caring for oneself, and the actions that help us mature also help it grow. – Tisha Marie Payton
  3. It is much more important to be oneself than anything else. – Virginia Woolf
  4. No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. – Virginia Woolf
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  6. In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America—and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it. – Robert A Heinlein
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  8. To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor. – Dani Shapiro
  9. To strive to better oneself is natural and expected. To abandon oneself in an effort to attain a new self is foolish and unhealthy. – TA Miles
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  15. In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. – Benjamin Spock
  16. Remember that -œwhere God guides, He provides. Where He leads, He supplies all needs. – Billy Graham
  17. I once got lost in a dark woods with no supplies.Struggling to deal with nature, beasts and storms,that was time when I lost my arrogance as human. – Toba Beta
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  21. Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women – Virginia Woolf
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  25. It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. – Virginia Woolf
  26. …it struck her, this was tragedy– not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued. – Virginia Woolf
  27. Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life? – Virginia Woolf
  28. Well, we must wait for the future to show. – Virginia Woolf
  29. Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here, I in my satin; he in black and white? – Virginia Woolf
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  35. Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences. – Virginia Woolf
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  38. Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love? – Virginia Woolf
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