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‘If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don’t give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise. Keep your head down. Keep your st
... See moreMatt Haig • The Midnight Library: A Novel
People say ‘be yourself’ because they want you to resist the impulse to conform to what others want you to be. But you can’t be yourself if you don’t learn who are, and you can’t learn who you are unless you think about it.
John Roberts • "I Wish You Bad Luck"
words from my piece in @bylinebyline 🎐
instagram.comSo let me ask you: How are you being? Not doing, or going. Being
Jeanette Winterson • SUMMER SOLSTICE 2022
But nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
This is more difficult, because there is no zeitgeist to read, no template to follow, no mask to wear. Set aside what y... See more
This is more difficult, because there is no zeitgeist to read, no template to follow, no mask to wear. Set aside what y... See more
James Clear • 1999 Mount Holyoke Commencement Speech
the unbearable about-ness of being. By “about-ness” I meant that I felt disconnected from myself, abstracted from my own life.