Sometimes we reveal ourselves ...

Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.