"Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like."

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Source : Marie Lu (2014). “The Young Elites”, p.56, Penguin

Marie Lu

#Being Yourself Quotes #Mean Quotes #Want Quotes

“If you have sex, it should be for you, not for the other person.”
“I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.”
“The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.”
“How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life!”
“Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.”

Source : "The Magnificent Mitscher". Book by Theodore Taylor, 1954.
“The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.”
“At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something.”
“It does no one any good to say their novel sucks if you don't have an idea how to make it better, how to approach it from different angles and make it work. It's obviously a subjective process, right? But the thing about subjectivity, at least in the classroom, is that you're banking on your professor's subjectivity to be both personal and professional - that he or she has some sense about the world outside the workshop.”

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