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"There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it."
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"She also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good."

"Don't be consistent but be simply true."

"Just do you. The right people and opportunities will be drawn to that."

"What if pretending is interfering with the person you're meant to be? he said."

"Firen didn't waste any time setting up the meeting with Egnatious. The following day she was in such a rush to tell me about it that she burst into my room without knocking and found Andrew and me in an intimate and compromising position reminiscent of the game Twister. Also, I cannot confirm or deny if there was food involved. Let's just say I toppled over in embarrassment, taking Andrew down with me in a great heap. Firen didn't fare any better, as she nearly knocked herself out when she ran into the doorframe in an attempt to escape. We were both scarred for life, especially after Firen apologized for walking in on our 'naked fun time, which was apparently what Joseph called it. There were some things people should never know, and that was one of them."

"You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer."

"People use masks in public and then wonder why their personal life, their relationships, don't work. If you're not being honest with others, there's nothing real about yourself to learn and, the wider the gap, the deeper the suffering. The heart wasn't meant to be closed in a box made of fake feelings and thoughts."

"Wade straight through life, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and heart open."

"The most important thing in life it to be true to ourselves, to never give up attempting to become the very finest version of what we wish to be, no matter how arduous that proves to be."

"An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life."
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"You will never get the best out of anyone professionally unless you understand what motivates and makes them tick personally - as a human being."

"Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults."

"I'm often called in as a coach and speaker to motivate staff, teams, the public and leaders. The key to this is simple; you cannot truly, deeply and sustainably motivate anybody until you know what their motives are...what motivates them...?"

"While there may be many things in life you wish to harvest not every seed you plant will grow."

"Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on."

"They'll come a time - in fact many times - when all the tools & techniques will fail you or desert you. Then - at last - is the moment to trust, use & follow your heart."

"See life for what it is - a blessing to be lived - rather than what is so often reduced to, a problem to be fixed."
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