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 More about this quote Tags: honesty identity denial Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves? —Friedrich Nietzsche More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood. —Carl Jung More about this quote Tags: understanding fear shyness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger. —Anne Sexton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me. —Cary Grant More about this quote Tags: imagination identity transformation pretend Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man who is "ill-adjusted to the world" is always on the point of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister. —Hermann Hesse More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email