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13 years ago

“The past doesn’t need you anymore. Your future does.”

“Making a decision isn’t about knowing every potential consequence. It’s about knowing what you want and chasing a path that takes you in that direction”

“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”

“Character is determined by choice, not opinion.”

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”

“Etymologically, integrity is oneness, integration is what makes something one. To be a thing, one thing, a unity, an entity; to be anything at all: in the metaphysical sense, that is what it means to have integrity. But we use the term for someone who lives up to his own standards. And that is because we think that living up to them is what makes him one, and so what makes him a person at all. It is the conceptions of ourselves that are most important to us that give rise to unconditional obligations. For to violate them is to lose your integrity and so your identity, and to no longer be who you are.”

“I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.”

“Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.”

“No one who sees what is bad chooses it willingly; instead he is lured into seeing it as good compared to what is even worse, and thus he is trapped.”

“I am condemned to be free.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

“The sadness will last forever.”