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Identity Quotes

    “It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”

    Marcus Aurelius

      “The truth is that you do not change your life when you fix every piece and call that healing. You change your life when you become comfortable with being happy here, even if you want to go forward. You change your life when you can love yourself even though you don’t look exactly the way you want to. You change your life when you are principled about money and love and relationships, when you treat strangers as well as you do your CEO, and when you manage $1,000 the same way you would $10,000.”

      Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You (Page 147)

        “Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”

        Chinese proverb

          “Every man becomes what he teaches others to be. Those who gain victory over themselves will gain victory over others. It is most difficult to achieve victory over oneself. Every man has power only over himself.”

          Dhammapada, via A Calendar of Wisdom (Page 336)

            “It is very hard to show up as the person you want to be when you are surrounded by an environment that makes you feel like a person you aren’t.”

            Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You (Page 42)

              When you decide you truly do not ever want to feel a certain way again, you set out on a journey of self-awareness, learning, and growth that has you radically reinvent who you are.”

              Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You (Page 23)

                “Do not be afraid to bring out the more sensitive or ambitious sides to your character. These repressed parts of you are yearning to be let out. In the theater of life, expand the roles that you play. Don’t worry about people’s reactions to any changes in you they sense. You are not so easy to categorize, which will fascinate them and give you the power to play with their perceptions of you, altering them at will.”

                Robert Greene, The Daily Laws (Page 372)