What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.
As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
We're our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.
Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.
If you think that I will find knowledge in this world than you're wrong, find it inside yourself, you don’t know that you are full of knowledge in nature.
Pursuing your dreams in spite of opposition is a revolution against mediocrity. By challenging yourself, you transform those around you.
If you are still a student, then don't express yourself over smart because you will think something and that will pass off something else.
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.
To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes more positive...
Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a love-hate relationship with words.
When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.
A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.
Today you are no longer a victor nor victim of the past and future, today is completely independent, there are no restrictions; except for the ones you place upon yourself.
To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
Fitting in is unnecessary. Embrace who you are. You will go through rough times in high school, but always stay strong, and never deny yourself!
It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.
I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.
