SELF-EMPOWERMENT QUOTES
Lao-Tse (author of the Tao Te Ching): "The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself."
e.e. cummings: “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
Euripides: “There is just one life for each of us: our own.”
Friedrich Nietzsche: “At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”
William Blake: “No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”
Thomas Merton: “We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us.”
Henrik Ibsen: “What's a man's first duty? The answer's brief: To be himself.”
Fanny Brice: “Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?”
Judy Garland: “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
John Mason: “You were born an original. Don't die a copy.”
