All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
-- Johann von Goethe

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
-- Samuel Johnson

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

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
-- Honoré de Balzac

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
-- Confucius

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
-- Julius Charles Hare

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

Being Myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behaviour, trying new ways of "Being Myself", so that I can see how it is I want to be.
-- Hugh Prather

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
-Theodore Roosevelt

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
-- H.F. Hedge

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
-- Shakti Gawain

Folks may call you different, they may say that you can't win, but it's not what's on the outside - It's what you have within!
-- Devin Peltier-Robson

Freedom lies in being bold.
-- Robert Frost

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
-- William Shakespeare

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
-- Raymond Hull

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
-- Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.
-- Pearl Bailey

I was once afraid of people saying, "Who does she think she is?" Now I have the courage to stand and say, "This is who I am."
-- Oprah Winfrey

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.
-- Michel de Montaigne, translated

I started to repeat to myself "If I'm not where I want to be, it's because I'm not good enough... yet." Which meant it was up to me.
-- Sally Field

I 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.
-- Shirley MacLaine

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
-- Sylvia Plath

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
-- Johann von Goethe

If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found.
-- Author Unknown

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
- Louis Kronenberger

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
-- Andre Gide

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.
-- K.T. Jong

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
-- Desiderius Erasmus

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
-- e.e. cummings

Just being yourself, being who you are, is a successful rebellion.
-- Author Unknown

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel

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?
-- Fanny Brice

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
-- Oscar Wilde

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.
-- D.H. Lawrence

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
-- John Morley

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
-- Thomas Szasz

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
-- Baltasar Gracian

Take the time to come home to yourself every day.
-- Robin Casarjean

The biggest mistake people make in life is not making a living at doing what they most enjoy.
-- Malcolm S. Forbes

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

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
-- Julien Green

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
-- Leo Buscaglia

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
-- James Matthew Barrie

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match.
-- Todd Ruthman

There are 3 choices: you can either give up, give in, or give it your all!
-- Author Unnknown

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-- Anaïs Nin

There is just one life for each of us: our own.- Euripides

There 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.
-- Samuel Johnson

This outward Spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.
-- Rumi

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
-- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
-- Confucius

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself.
-- Ethel Barrymore

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
-- Alan Alda

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.
-- Irene C. Kassorla

You must live your life from beginning to end: No one else can do it for you.
-- Hopi saying

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
-- John Mason

Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it!
-- Martin H. Fischer

True Friendship (Business Partners)

True friendship is a blessing that dwells deep within the heart.

We don't know how it happens or where it gets its start.

But the happiness it brings you always seems to give a lift.

And you realize that true friendship... is a most precious gift.

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