"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession."

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"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession."

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"Accept yourself irrespective of your imperfection and express your skills."

"Those who seek to listen to their own inner voice forget to listen to the judgment of others."

"Lara Jean, why do you have to remember every little thing? It's not healthy."

"It is better to be than belong."

"Blame doesn't empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don't want to be because you don't want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life's happiness."

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"Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit and not give the bread of life."

"It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself."

"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."

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