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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

—Margaret Mead

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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

—Dr. Seuss

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Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves?

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Don't worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.

—Howard Thurman

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Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

—Carl Jung

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Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.

—Thomas Huxley

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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

—Winston Churchill

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To be out of harmony with one's surroundings is of course a misfortune, but it is not always a misfortune to be avoided at all costs. Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.

—Bertrand Russell

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I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.

—Anne Sexton

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It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological warfare, and don't give their parents a moment's worry.

—J. B. Priestley

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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

—Virginia Woolf

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After all, it is better to be a good bourgeois like the others than a bad bohemian, a false aristocrat, or a second-rate intellectual.

—Albert Camus

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I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

—Cary Grant

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