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"A bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads on the ground..."
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"Don't make changes to suit others, stay true to yourself."
"The closer you come to your authentic self, the simpler everything becomes. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you who you are."
"Your life "behind the scenes" must correspond to your life "on stage." What you preach must correspond to how you live."
"Create a life that feels good on the inside, not just one that looks good on the outside."
"Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own."
"It's way too easy to see the real face of a person. They're amiable and full of pretense when they want something from you, but the minute you don't give in, back away or put yourself first (like they do) is the minute they show you who they really are."
"To win the heart of men, always be yourself."
"There is no great reward for being emotionally withdrawn, no pity prize for bottling your frustration. No one is coming to congratulate your chronic self-repression. By opening up, maybe you will inconvenience some people. Maybe you will trigger some conflict. Maybe you will be rejected, criticized, judged. Everything comes with a price and everything has its compensation. Authenticity may require pain, but it also opens the doors to joy, creativity, self-respect, empathy. Self-repression, on the other hand, costs you all the beauty of the world in exchange for a prison of comfort. Is it really worth it? Isn't it time to break free?"
"We must reject the artificial and embrace what is real and true: truth in food, community, relationships and self."
"People pretend to be other people because they have never thought of their true selves."
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"I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ..."
"If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain..."
"Poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths..."
"Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ..."
"My early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it in until it burned my bones and now, I've let it out..."
"Freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others..."
"Everyone struggles to guard their heart from breaking, when they should desire to have a heart that breaks..."
"Last night, lost in spaces between star-bays and lakes of clouds, I tossed and turned looking for you."
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