The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

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""God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.""

- Rudyard Kipling

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"Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs."

- Rudyard Kipling

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"I only hope the fish will take half as much trouble for me as I’ve taken for them."

- Rudyard Kipling

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"They will come back, come back again, as long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think He would squander souls?"

- Rudyard Kipling

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"Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade."

- Rudyard Kipling

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"I don’t want to conquer anything. I just think that the guy with the most freedom in this ocean is the Pirate King!"

- Monkey D. Luffy

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"Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light."

- Osho

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"It's better to be a lonely lion than a popular sheep."

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"Let your spirit dart and weave, free as a dragonfly"

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"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."

- Dr. Seuss

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