Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is prese…

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.
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Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

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