A lesson learned

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.


Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.


Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.


It is better to be hated for what you are then to be loved for what your not.


Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.


How can something be so beautiful and yet at the same time be so destructive...Beauty is deceiving.