Day In & Day Out: be yourself

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Tuesday, 26 September 2023

"You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, and not with its idea of you."

–– James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer and activist

Maggie's Farm

"Well, I try my best

To be just like I am

But everybody wants you

To be just like them

They say, "Sing while you slave," and I just get bored."

–– Bob Dylan (b. 1941), American singer and songwriter

via: Anvil Sketchbook, 2018, p. 65.

"It's never too late to be what you might have been."

–– George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), British novelist, poet, journalist, translator

via: Sketchbook 23, 2014, p. 14.

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

–– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher and writer

via: Sketchbook 20, 2013, p. 120

"The privilege of a lifetime is to be yourself."

–– Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), American author and professor

via Sketchbook 9, 2009, p. 46