If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchant-ments of later years the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial the alienation from the sources of our strength.
~ Rachel Carson
You are unique and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.
~ Martha Graham
The thing that makes you exceptional if you are at all is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
~ Lorraine Hansbury
Everybody is talented original and has something important to say.
~ Brenda Ueland
I didn't belong as a kid and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset then my early life would have been much easier.
~ Bette Midler
Genius is expansive irresistible and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you no cords can confine it.
~ Gail Hamilton
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time you are incomparable.
Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight seeing them as they are without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius.
~ Maude Adams
Children see things very well sometimes-and idealists even better.
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.
~ Denise Shekerjian
Art is the signature of civilizations.
~ Beverly Sills
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do-can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops or we can make music.
~ Barbara Sher
If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.
~ Johann Von Goethe
Love your self's self where it lives.
~ Anne Sexton
Be content with what you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor long for it.
~ Martial
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
~ Erasmus
Who I am is the best I can be.
~ Leontyne Price
Learn what you are and be such.
~ Pindar
What thou art that thou art.
~ Thomas À Kempis
I is who I is.
~ Tom Peterson
People remain what they are even when their faces fall to pieces.
~ Bertolt Brecht
You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
~ Alex Haley
The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
~ Cesare Pavese
I seldom think about my limitations and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague like a breeze among flowers.
~ Helen Keller
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
~ Coco Chanel
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself in spite of being unacceptable.
~ Paul Tillich
Contentment and indeed usefulness comes as the infallible result of great acceptances great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.
~ David Grayson
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
~ Sigmund Freud
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
~ Pearl Bailey
There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely.
~ Ugo Betti
I'm not OK you're not OK-and that's OK.
~ William Sloane Coffin
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.
~ Shakti Gawain
All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not to do something they cannot do.
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
~ Ingrid Bergman
She soothed and solaced and celebrated destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.
~ Martha Bacon
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
~ André Gide
Borrowed thoughts like borrowed money only show the poverty of the borrower.
~ Lady Marguerite Blessington
Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
~ Saint Francis De Sales
Every man must at last accept himself for his portion and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.
~ Charles A. Hawley
