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Any path is only a path and there is no affront to oneself or to others in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

Carlos Castañeda

It is possible to be different and still be all right.

Anne Wilson Schaef

I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Lillian Hellman

The crow that mimics a cormorant gets drowned.

Japanese Proverb

Let the world know you as you are not as you think you should be because sooner or later if you are posing you will forget the pose and then where are you?

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.

Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality it cannot be transferred. No two persons if sincere can have the same philosophy.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Choose always the way that seems the best however rough it may be custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

I think God rarely gives to one man or one set of men more than one great moral victory to win.

Truth has beauty power and necessity.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self

Michel de Montaigne

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house but you cannot build the house without them.

Constance Fenimore Woolson

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to keep your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

Sir Richard Burton

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

The moment that any life however good stifles you you may be sure it isn't your real life.

Arthur Christopher Benson

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

Sophocles

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.

Charles Caleb Colton

With begging and scrambling we find very little but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

Rabindranath Tagore

While you cannot resolve what you are at last you will be nothing.

Martial

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

John Lancaster Spalding

Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

Helen Merrell Lynd

Until you know that life is interesting and find it so you haven't found your soul.

Geoffrey Fisher

Keep your promises to yourself.

David Harold Fink

The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate As the voyage along thru life 'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

Sylvester Stallone

I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

No matter how ill we may be nor how low we may have fallen we should not change identity with any other person.

Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

Whatever you want in life other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes economic pressure and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.

To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

Janet Erskine Stuart

We had as lief not be as not be ourselves.

William Hazlitt

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself

James Russell Lowell

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

Henry David Thoreau

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

Mahalia Jackson

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own to be what no others are and to do what no other can do.

William Ellery Channing

To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.

Joseph Campbell

To have no set purpose in one's life is harlotry of the will.

Stephen McKenna

A rose is a rose is a rose.

True inward quietness ... is not vacancy but stability-the steadfastness of a single purpose.

Caroline Stephen

Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive along with which comes the inner voice which says "This is the real me " and when you have found that attitude follow it.

Most of our platitudes notwithstanding self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that worked on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here no prettily drawn list of good intentions.

No matter where I run I meet myself there.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men-and people in general.

Lorraine Hansbury

There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely. The condemned man has that joy.

Ugo Betti

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Julius Charles Hare

As you go along your road in life you will if you aim high enough also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem have courage still-and persevere.

Madeleine Albright

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide as ours has done ... whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.

Carrie Chapman Catt

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