Sunday Quotes: Be Yourself

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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.

e.e. cummings

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity.  Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.

Boris Pasternak

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

Anaïs Nin

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel

Never be bullied into silence.  Never allow yourself to be made a victim.  Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein

Sunday Quotes – The Universe

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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Lao Tzu

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Anais Nin

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
Thomas Merton

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
Ansel Adams

Sunday Quotes – Anais Nin

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.