"Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you."

-- Anna Deavere Smith

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“It's not success that makes a person's life worthy of legend. It's provocative defeat, someone who struggled mightily and lost. And that loss can't just be gratuitous - there has to be something about his or her character that whittles that loss into something provocative.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The media is the message and the messenger, and increasingly a powerful one.”
“I was on Facebook. I'm not anymore, but my sister always sends pictures to a page. I'm sure you can find a Bradley Cooper there.”
“I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?”

Source : William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”
“[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in the pattern of daily life and thought. Whether this will happen or not, and if it does to what degree, is partly dependent on the power of resistance in those who represent the opposite pole of the courage to be, the courage to be as oneself.”
“Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.”
“I knew that the right person for Crossroads would come along if we were just patient and made sure that we didn't try to force anything.”
“Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.”

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