To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.
Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.
Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.
When one is true to oneself, when one is authentic, one becomes true to the evolutionary thrust for self-optimization that exists within oneself and within the universe. And that evolutionary thrust is a continuous unfolding process.
As long as one asserts oneself and is true to oneself.
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