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Being Yourself

"No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself."

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Walt Disney Animator, Film Producer
Being Yourself

"When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Being Yourself

"Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionaliti es or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle."

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Epictetus Philosopher
Being Yourself

"You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself."

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