“ The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others. Sharon Anthony Bower
“ Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling that desire. Epictetus
“ In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained no man can be truly free. He may have power but he will not have freedom. Mary F. Robinson
“ The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough. Denise Shekerjian
“ To make the choice for independent survival the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth. Joanna T. Steichen
“ I have come back again to where I belong not an enchanted place but the walls are strong. Dorothy H. Rath
“ Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings. William Shakespeare
“ Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man I know of none more precious. William Hale White
“ From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it. Herman Melville
“ What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies… Marcel Proust
“ Currents of desire and excitement that she had not known or thought about for years now flooded in her. She wanted him to bring alive what she had buried, and to demean, destroy, her fabricated self. Sebastian Faulks
“ Crime begins with God. It will end with man, when he finds God again. Crime is everywhere, in all the fibres and roots of our being. Every minute of the day adds fresh crimes to the calendar, both tho… Henry Miller
“ Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbu… Jonathan Lethem
“ He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them them over and over again to gi… Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“ Follow your interests get the best available education and training set your sights high be persistent be flexible keep your options open accept help when offered and be prepared to help others… Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus
“ The moment you are more interested and obsessed to others you begin to loose your Self . It's so insane that you again seek others to help find self. Gopichand Lagadapati
“ That was with me for years--feeling I wasn't myself. And I do think I wasn't my real self then. Of course, I'm not sure there is such a thing as a real self. You could ransack your innards looking for… Ryū Murakami
“ He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer. No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they woul… Richard Wright
