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As long as you live that way, in the realm of the possibility of ‘if only such and such were the case’, you will never be able to change. Because saying ‘if only I could be like Y’ is an excuse to yourself for not changing.
ICHIRO
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People are not driven by past causes, but move toward goals that they themselves set
ICHIRO:34
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the self being determined not by our experiences themselves, but by the meaning we give them
ICHIRO:28
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