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When communicating, the feelings behind what someone is saying are much more important than any thoughts or ideas they may have.
To believe your own self, your own opinions or thoughts, as the truth, for you and for all, -- that is genius.
Speak what you believe and it will be true for everything. What you truly believe in your heart, with all your heart, is what becomes your reality.
The people who we admire most are the ones who spoke their own mind, not what everyone else was thinking.
A man needs to learn to detect and trust the light that comes from within his own mind, more than that of “wise” men and “intellectuals”.
Envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide; you must take yourself for better, for worse.
The man has who has learned to take himself, and trust himself, over all else, finds a new power within him, and none but he can know what exactly he can do, nor does he know until he has tried to do it.
We never fully express ourselves, and that makes us ashamed of ourselves, and He who made us.
A man is truly happy when he has put his heart into his work and done his best
Trust thyself
Accept where God has put you, the society you are in, the people who surround you, the connection of events.
Be like the boy who is sure of dinner, he always remains calm and is never deterred by the eyes of other men, for that is the healthy attitude of human nature.
He doesn’t trouble himself about consequences, but about interests: he gives an independent, genuine verdict.
You must seek him: he will not seek you.
But he is constantly held back by a consciousness of others.
As soon as he has spoken out and is received with an enthusiastic approval, he is committed, he will be watch by the jealousy and hatred of hundreds, who must begin to question their own accounts.
He will speak his mind on every passing affair that is not private, and he will strike fear in men.
The voices you are to trust above all else are the ones you hear in solitude, but they become harder to hear as you enter the world.
Whoever wants to be able to call himself a man, must be a nonconformist.
You must not just accept something as goodness. You must not let goodness stop you, you must explore if it is goodness.
The integrity of your own mind is sacred.
Someone else’s law cannot be sacred to you, the only laws that can be sacred are the ones you find in your own nature, the ones you feel in your heart God would have you obey.
A man is to carry himself against all opposition, as if everything else is nothing but titles and will only last a short period of time.
He himself is the exception.
It is a shame how easily we surrender to badges and names.
I should always, no matter what, be confident and speak the truth.
The ugly truth is better than anything false, no matter how splendid its dressed.
My life is for itself and not for a spectacle; it is to appease God and myself, not the eyes of men.
I’d rather my life be constant, be me, at all times, than for it to be praiseworthy and malleable.
As few and average as my gifts may be, I am who I am, and I do not need an assurance from peers with any testimony.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
Great men do what concerns themselves; normal people’s actions are determined by what people will think.
This is hard because people will always think they know what is better for you than you know it.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
We act in consistency to appease everyone else; people like themselves more when you aren’t changing or improving, when you aren’t controversial, for then they can feel comfortable about themselves being the same as always. If you always act in consistency then you deprive your soul of everything it wants to do.
Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. -- 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' -- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Jesus was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Pythagoras, 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.
Everyday let me record my honest thoughts without prospect or retrospect, and I will find it to be symmetrical, even though I don’t mean it to and I can’t always see it as symmetrical.
Your character teaches more than anything you will ever try to teach.
We think that we can only communicate virtues through obvious actions, but the truth is we communicate our virtues through every moment of our existence.
Your true character is cumulative, it is shown through all that you do and something new is always shown through it, as long as you are true to yourself in every moment.
Know your worth, and keep things under your feet. Do not steal and do not idolize in a world, which exists for you.
There is a popular fable by a man named Shakespeare, of a drunkard who was picked up in the street (drunk), carried to the duke's house, washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed, and, on his waking, he was treated with all obsequious ceremony like that of the duke. Imagine how he felt. He was assured that he had been insane. This fable is important because it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is in the world a sort of drunkard, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason, and finds himself a true prince.
The wind sows the seed; the sun evaporates the sea; the wind blows vapor on the field; the ice, on the other side of the planet, condenses rain on this; the rain feeds the plant; the plant feeds the animal; and thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nourish man. When you take notice of all the servants waiting on you, you cannot think of yourself as anything but a prince with a world laid out for you. When you have come to this rightful mindset you see that the same statue that used to make you feel small, now makes you feel much bigger, its whole reason for existence is to wait for your verdict on it. As the prince you are the center of everything and all things are within your reach.
To believe your own self, your own opinions or thoughts, as the truth, for you and for all, -- that is genius.
Speak what you believe and it will be true for everything. What you truly believe in your heart, with all your heart, is what becomes your reality.
The people who we admire most are the ones who spoke their own mind, not what everyone else was thinking.
A man needs to learn to detect and trust the light that comes from within his own mind, more than that of “wise” men and “intellectuals”.
Envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide; you must take yourself for better, for worse.
The man has who has learned to take himself, and trust himself, over all else, finds a new power within him, and none but he can know what exactly he can do, nor does he know until he has tried to do it.
We never fully express ourselves, and that makes us ashamed of ourselves, and He who made us.
A man is truly happy when he has put his heart into his work and done his best
Trust thyself
Accept where God has put you, the society you are in, the people who surround you, the connection of events.
Be like the boy who is sure of dinner, he always remains calm and is never deterred by the eyes of other men, for that is the healthy attitude of human nature.
He doesn’t trouble himself about consequences, but about interests: he gives an independent, genuine verdict.
You must seek him: he will not seek you.
But he is constantly held back by a consciousness of others.
As soon as he has spoken out and is received with an enthusiastic approval, he is committed, he will be watch by the jealousy and hatred of hundreds, who must begin to question their own accounts.
He will speak his mind on every passing affair that is not private, and he will strike fear in men.
The voices you are to trust above all else are the ones you hear in solitude, but they become harder to hear as you enter the world.
Whoever wants to be able to call himself a man, must be a nonconformist.
You must not just accept something as goodness. You must not let goodness stop you, you must explore if it is goodness.
The integrity of your own mind is sacred.
Someone else’s law cannot be sacred to you, the only laws that can be sacred are the ones you find in your own nature, the ones you feel in your heart God would have you obey.
A man is to carry himself against all opposition, as if everything else is nothing but titles and will only last a short period of time.
He himself is the exception.
It is a shame how easily we surrender to badges and names.
I should always, no matter what, be confident and speak the truth.
The ugly truth is better than anything false, no matter how splendid its dressed.
My life is for itself and not for a spectacle; it is to appease God and myself, not the eyes of men.
I’d rather my life be constant, be me, at all times, than for it to be praiseworthy and malleable.
As few and average as my gifts may be, I am who I am, and I do not need an assurance from peers with any testimony.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
Great men do what concerns themselves; normal people’s actions are determined by what people will think.
This is hard because people will always think they know what is better for you than you know it.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
We act in consistency to appease everyone else; people like themselves more when you aren’t changing or improving, when you aren’t controversial, for then they can feel comfortable about themselves being the same as always. If you always act in consistency then you deprive your soul of everything it wants to do.
Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. -- 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' -- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Jesus was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Pythagoras, 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.
Everyday let me record my honest thoughts without prospect or retrospect, and I will find it to be symmetrical, even though I don’t mean it to and I can’t always see it as symmetrical.
Your character teaches more than anything you will ever try to teach.
We think that we can only communicate virtues through obvious actions, but the truth is we communicate our virtues through every moment of our existence.
Your true character is cumulative, it is shown through all that you do and something new is always shown through it, as long as you are true to yourself in every moment.
Know your worth, and keep things under your feet. Do not steal and do not idolize in a world, which exists for you.
There is a popular fable by a man named Shakespeare, of a drunkard who was picked up in the street (drunk), carried to the duke's house, washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed, and, on his waking, he was treated with all obsequious ceremony like that of the duke. Imagine how he felt. He was assured that he had been insane. This fable is important because it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is in the world a sort of drunkard, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason, and finds himself a true prince.
The wind sows the seed; the sun evaporates the sea; the wind blows vapor on the field; the ice, on the other side of the planet, condenses rain on this; the rain feeds the plant; the plant feeds the animal; and thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nourish man. When you take notice of all the servants waiting on you, you cannot think of yourself as anything but a prince with a world laid out for you. When you have come to this rightful mindset you see that the same statue that used to make you feel small, now makes you feel much bigger, its whole reason for existence is to wait for your verdict on it. As the prince you are the center of everything and all things are within your reach.
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Right on.