Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. ― Epictetus

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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone. ― Epictetus

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Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

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All my songs could speak about the same person in different situations. -Karol G

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I'm generally a happy person -with the help of antidepressants, that is- so there is something to be said for surrounding myself with happy people. ― Rachel Machacek

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This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity. ― Joseph Stalin

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Don't ever let someone tell you the value you don't have, in order to be in someone's life. That is often the value they feel you have, not that person. ― Shannon L. Alder

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Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart. ― Roy T. Bennett

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Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.

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