"If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else."

Rasheed Ogunlaru, British Motivational Speaker

Identity, Authenticity, Truth, Self

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"If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else."

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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."

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"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."

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bell hooks, American Critic

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"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

Stephen King, American Author

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"As I think of myself, so I shall be."

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"Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were."

David Levithan, American Author

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"No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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