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=============================All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.  ~ by Ralph Waldo EmersonThere lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. ~ by Samuel JohnsonInspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs There is just one life for each of us: our own. ~ by EuripidesNo creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos. ~ by D.H. LawrenceBe who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~ by Dr. SeussMen weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. ~ by Eric HofferMan is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~ by Oscar WildeHow many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~ by Gabrielle Coco ChanelMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~ by Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. ~ by Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi to Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf, 1882Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. ~ by Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things. ~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-RelianceThe most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. ~ by Anne Morrow LindberghIf you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. ~ by Author UnknownIt is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. ~ by Desiderius ErasmusAll my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself. ~ by Ralph Ellison, Battle RoyalBe what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ~ by Julius Charles HareAn unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. ~ by Honoré de Balzac, Scnes de la vie Parisienne, La Maison Nucingen, 1838Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ~ by HomerGod has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~ by William ShakespeareWe are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ~ by François Duc de La RochefoucauldWherever you go, go with all your heart. ~ by ConfuciusI think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. ~ by Shirley MacLaineThere is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground round it into a swamp. ~ by Mark Rutherford (William Hale White), More Pages from a Journal, 1910Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~ by Benjamin DisraeliMore Categories Caffeine Quotes Language Sayings Proverbs Quotes Money Sayings Hugs Quotes Advertising Sayings Puns Quotes Flirtation Sayings Poverty Quotes Angels Sayings
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