We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?
- Topic: Self-esteem
- Location: Death Valley National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
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What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others.
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You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?
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