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Post by disorganizeddragon on Nov 11, 2012 1:16:24 GMT -5
"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."--Maya Angelou
“If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it--through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.”--Victoria Moran, Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty
“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”--Rita Mae Brown
"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."--e.e. cummings
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Post by Di on Nov 11, 2012 1:31:57 GMT -5
The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well. Alfred Adler
Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine. Whoopi Goldberg
Carl Gustav Jung said: "To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful."
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Nov 12, 2012 11:45:34 GMT -5
“I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes--it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. . .""The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”--Maya Angelou Hi Di! Thanks for all the quote contributions that prove being "normal" isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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Post by Freedom on Nov 12, 2012 13:12:35 GMT -5
"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."--Maya Angelou Wow. Was thinking just today how TIRED I am of trying to be normal, I've worked so hard at this all my life, and certainly never achieved it . Thanks DDragon, I needed this today.
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Nov 13, 2012 12:23:56 GMT -5
"What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly."--Carl Rogers"Learn to...be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not."--Henri Frederic Amiel"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."--Desiderius Erasmus"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not."--Andre Gide“To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.”--Sandra Bierig Freedom13, I'm so glad the quote from Maya Angelou made you feel a bit better. How boring would this world be if we were all "normal?"
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Post by hiding on Nov 14, 2012 0:16:29 GMT -5
From one of my favorite movies and certainly my favorite Halloween movie
Aunt Frances Owens: "My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage!"
And one of my favorite Berber sayings.
"That the birds of worry are gonna fly over your head, this you can't change. But that they build nests in your hair, this you can duck."
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Nov 14, 2012 2:19:03 GMT -5
"So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself."--Neale Donald Walsch"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."--Les Brown“Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.”--C. JoyBell C."Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are."--Dodinsky Hi hiding! Thanks for the quotes! I certainly agree with Aunt Frances--being "normal" is the easy way out. It takes guts to be yourself and stand out. (And yes, please, no bird nests in my hair...I don't own a single thing that would go with a bird nest. )
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Post by Di on Nov 14, 2012 9:20:04 GMT -5
“Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.”
Ralph Marston
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Post by Di on Nov 14, 2012 9:24:40 GMT -5
“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.” Leo F. Buscaglia
“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.” Henry Louis Mencken
“Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.” Ralph Charell
“Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.” John Akers
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Nov 15, 2012 13:02:49 GMT -5
"Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be."--Robert Brault"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."--Thomas Szasz, "Personal Conduct," The Second Sin"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing, but what you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."--Alan Alda"The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart."--Julien Green Thanks for all the great quote contributions, Di! I like them all, but I love the one by Ralph Charell. (Here's to having my wild expectation of getting everything done by Christmas!)
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Post by CourageouslyLion SeeksSerenity on Nov 15, 2012 15:14:51 GMT -5
Whether you voted for him or not ... this quote is still useful.
"The definition of hope is you still believe, even when it's hard." -- Barack Obama
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Nov 16, 2012 12:22:42 GMT -5
"How would your life be different if...you stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day...you stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others.”--Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free"I wish I could show you, When you are lonely or in darkness, The astonishing light of your own being."--Hafiz“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”--Abraham Lincoln Hi Lioness! Thank you so much for the wonderful quote about hope--something we can never have too much of...
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Post by hiding on Nov 16, 2012 21:56:37 GMT -5
This one was of great comfort to me when I was going through a particularly difficult financial time in my life and I had creditors, tax collectors, and customers all after me day and night.
"And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?"
~ Kahlil Gibran
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Nov 17, 2012 13:10:24 GMT -5
"If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect, will you compel others to respect you."--Fyodor Dostoyevsky“Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right.”--Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity“To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.”--Irving Wallace"Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters."--Dan Coppersmith Hiding, I love your quote contribution. There are so many times that I have made myself feel a thousand times worse than anyone else could've ever made me feel. Thank you for sharing it.
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Nov 18, 2012 10:45:58 GMT -5
"Butterflies can’t see their wings. They can’t see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well."--Unknown
"You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don't know it, all of that doesn't even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. It's not like you have forever, so don't waste any of your seconds, don't throw even one of your moments away.”--C. JoyBell C.
“To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.”--Victoria Moran, Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty
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