Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment — the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.                                                     —Jorge Luis Borges

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.        —Sydney J. Harris

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. —Dr Seuss

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do and damned if you don’t.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I’ve met.           —Dwight Moody

It is never too late to be what you might have been. —George Eliot

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self’s actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.                               —Viktor E. Frankl

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.                                                                                    —H. Jackson Brown

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted, but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. —Garrison Keillor

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.   —Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best “you” in existence.             —Zig Ziglar

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

There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone.                                                                        —Jerry Garcia

One does not “find oneself” by pursuing one’s self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine … who one is and wants to be.                          —May Sarton

Never explain — your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.       —Elbert Hubbard