“You are not going to find yourself anywhere except right where you are.”
Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)
Shades of the World (1985)
“Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.”
— Jack Kerouac, book On the Road
Source: On the Road
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Live for others, and you will live again.”
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Context: I called the Navab's wine blood, the painted whore a corpse, and the king a pauper. I attacked Alexander with insults, and denounced the so-called great souls. The lowly I have raised on the bridge of praise to the seventh heaven. Your learned pandit is my great fool, your heaven my hell, your gold my iron, friend! Your piety my sin. Where you see yourself as brilliant I find you a dolt. Your rise, friend-my decline. That's the way our values are mixed up, friend! Your whole world is a hair to me. Oh yes, friend, I'm moonstruck through and through- moonstruck! That's just the way I am.
“You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.”
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Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 140
Context: By taking the time to contemplate where you are and where you want to be, you greatly empower yourself. It's a wonderful opportunity to finally set in motion the changes you want in your life.