My Path
• To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. — Spinoza
• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. — Theodore Roosevelt
• Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have. — Doris Mortman
• Every man’s work is a portrait of himself. — Anonymous, 1883
• Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. — Aldous Huxley, 1885
• This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man. ― Shakespeare
• At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self. — Brendan Francis
• Envy arises because I want to change myself and become like somebody else. But if I say, Whatever I am, THAT I want to understand, then envy is gone… — Eric Hoffer
• The greatest of all secrets is knowing how to reduce the force of envy. — Cardinal De Retz
• I don’t feel in competition with other writers. Because I don’t write about the same things as any other writer that I know of does. — Truman Capote
• I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. —Rita Mae Brown