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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
‎Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, cuz we were born this way bitch!
— Lady Gaga
Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.
— Gerard Way
You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?
— Dr. Seuss
The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid - but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself.
— Tom Robbins
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
— Lao Tzu
Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.
— Marilyn Manson
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
— Bruce Lee
Just remember to always be yourself and don’t be afraid to speak your mind or to dream out loud
— J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never
Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don't be someone else just be yourself.
— Selena Gómez
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
— Irving Wallace
Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.
— Nora Roberts
My best advice is to be yourself. Unless you’re psychotic, then you might want to try a different tactic.
— Gwen Hayes, So Over You
Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.
— Henry David Thoreau
Very few people do this any more. It's too risky. First of all, it's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Keep thinking back about what Mum said about being real and the Velveteen Rabbit book (though frankly have had enough trouble with rabbits in this particular house). My favorite book, she claims of which I have no memory was about how little kids get one toy that they love more than all the others, and even when its fur has been rubbed off, and it's gone saggy with bits missing, the little child still thinks it's the most beautiful toy in the world, and can't bear to be parted from it.That's how it works, when people really love each other, Mum whispered on the way out in the Debenhams lift, as if she was confessing some hideous and embarrassing secret. But, the thing is, darling, it doesn't happen to ones who have sharp edges, or break if they get dropped, or ones made of silly synthetic stuff that doesn't last. You have to be brave and let the other person know who you are and what you feel.
— Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason
What you say and how you look does not define who you are,because some of the most beautiful people do the ugliest things.You owe it to the people who hate you, who disrespect you and who put you down,because they’re the ones who have made you who you are today,for keeping your head up and not breaking down when they want you to.
— Amber Ward
Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.
— John Jakes
Everyone's on the cliff edge of normal. Everyone finds life an utter nightmare sometimes, and there's no 'normal' way of dealing with it... There is no normal, Evelyn.
— Holly Bourne, Am I Normal Yet?
Shine with all you have. When someone tries to blow you out, just take their oxygen and burn brighter.
— Katelyn S. Bolds
Not the “be yourself” line. I loathe that line. As if Myself and Tic have met before and gotten along, so all I have to do is make sure Myself is there this time. So illogical.
— Kasie West, The Distance Between Us
The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.
— Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never allow anyone to define you! Just be you!
— Chrys Phillips
She wanted to be herself at all costs.
— Kiera Cass, Happily Ever After
There’s nothing new. The novelty lies in being yourself.
— Haresh Sippy
Modern man has too many masks to wear. We must unmask and be ourselves, sincerely, earnestly and live truly as we are,
— Gyomay M. Kubose, Everyday Suchness: Buddhist Essays on Everyday Living
If you can BE your way through it, you can find your way to it.
— Suzette Vearnon
Let’s quit trying so hard to be some version of a normal we’ve never really been.
— Scott Stabile
Who is most likely to bother about your happiness? You, yourself. So like yourself, love yourself, change for your own good and stop looking out to others for your happiness.
— EverSkeptic
Live the life you've always dreamed of. Be fearless in the face of adversity. Never stop learning. Use your imagination whenever possible. Recognize the beauty that surrounds you. Remember where you came from, but never lose sight of where you are going.
— Unknown
The results of my work don't have much to do with me. I can only be in charge of producing the work itself. That's a hard enough job. I refuse to take on additional jobs, such as trying to police what anybody thinks about my work once it leaves my desk.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
By nature, we want to be liked. We want to be accepted. But, most of the time, we allow our worth to be decided by the people on the sidelines. By people that see snapshots of our life but have no clue what the whole picture looks like.
— Liz  Newman
-Are you nervous to meet my family? -No, not really.They're either going to like me or they won't. All I can do is to be myself and hope for the best.
— Jacob Chance, Penalty
Our purest deeds are those done subconsciously, Otherwise they are biased.
— Tapan Ghosh
Standing up for oneself is not always easy but it is often the only way to walk our true life path. The beaten path only gets you where most people go. Be original and explore new roads.
— Nanette Mathews
When we come in contact with our true self, we stop trying to be someone else. We fall in love with it and embrace it with all its flaws :-)
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Don’t be afraid of being yourself, but be afraid of being somebody else.
— Ben Tolosa, Masterplan Your Success
Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere.Try to commit an act of writingand they will jump overboard to get away.
— William Zinnser
Live like you want, not how others want you to live.
— Anonymous
Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.
— Bruce Lee
I found I was more confident when I stopped trying to be someone else’s definition of beautiful and started being my own.
— Remington Miller
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She was who she was - she'd been born this way, Why should she have to change who she was to satisfy someone else?
— S. Usher Evans, Double Life
Rather than looking outward in an attempt to predict the outcome, you turn inward to your identity. You base the decision on who you are--or who you want to be.
— Adam Grant, Originals
I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.
— Om Puri
Please don't sing and dance," I whisper, but it's too late. He's snapping his fingers and doing this sexy groove to the music. It should look really stupid - and it kind of does - but with his tight abs and his tattoos and piercings, it's really just...precious.
— C.M. Stunich, Bad Nanny
Another great mistake is this; another understandable error is this: living to live the footprints of others when you have your own foot! Live your footprints! You were born unique! If possible, put the shoes of others, (they must fit you however) but don't walk as they walked and as much as possible, don't leave the same footprints they left except you were born to be like them or you can change the face of their footprints into a unique artifact!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
— Eminem
I don't give a fuck, God sent me to piss the world off.
— Eminem
It might be extremely dorky to point out, but who you are is singular. It’s science. No one else in existence has your point of view or exact genome (identical twins and clones, look for inspiration elsewhere, please). That is why we need people to share and help us understand one another better. And on a bigger level than just taking a selfie. (Not hating on selfies, but a few is enough. You look good from that angle; we get it.) We need the world to hear more opinions, give glimpses into more diverse subcultures. Are you REALLY into dressing your cat in handcrafted, historically authentic outfits? No problem, there are people out there who want to see that! Probably in excruciating detail!
— Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet
Don't waste your time being what someone wants you to become, in order to feed their list of rules, boundaries and insecurities. Find your tribe. They will allow you to be you, while you dance in the rain.
— Shannon L. Alder
Don’t aspire to be the next somebody else. Be proud and embrace being the first and only you!
— Tammy Ferebee
The worst crime is faking it
— Kurt Cobain
Nobody is wired wrong because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.
— Hannah Hart
It's a a damn good day to be alive.
— Michael Clifford
People of different dispositions make the world go round. That's why it's insanity to try to be someone else.
— Ufuoma Apoki
Keep being crazy. Keep being loud. Be yourself. Because the only thing you have in your life is yourself and your friends.
— Zach Merrick
Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.
— C.G. Jung
Not caring is absolute freedom, and if you own it, all the way, it emits supreme confidence.
— A.D. Aliwat, Alpha
There is a path for each of us. When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness. We know the next right action―Although not necessarily what is just around the bend.
— Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
— Margaret Young
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
— St. Francis de Sales
One theme that runs through many [job hunting books] is just plain harmful: the advice to "just be yourself." Wrong. Remember that first day on your first job, when you went to get your first cup of coffee? You found the coffee machine, and there, stuck on the wall behind it, was a handwritten sign re
— Martin Yate, Knock 'em Dead Job Interview: How to Turn Job Interviews Into Job Offers
Be yourself!’ said Gro. ‘No one will hear any of you otherwise, still less trust you. That’s the most important thing of all. If you’re not yourself you just can’t sustain it in the long term.
— Åsne Seierstad
There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves.
— Arthur Ward
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
— Coco Chanel
It's hard to remember who you were when you're constantly pretending to be someone you're not.
— Amy Ewing
Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, magical person that your are.
— Mandy Hale
Change is actually what you need to avoid.Assimilation is much more joyful than conformity,when you try to change you try to fit yourself to other people's standards.You deny your own values and opinions, and you adopt a personality that isn't you.And most likely you will be more uncomfortable even though it may seem like you fit in more, i would suggest you not to change. Just be yourself, the way you are.Because that's what makes you different and distinguishable and unique from every other individual.
— Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe Quotes vol 1
If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it.
— David Levithan, Every Day
Do not let other people invade your personality. Remember that every human being is a unique phenomenon, and worth developing. You will meet many who have no resources of their own, and who will try to fasten themselves upon you. You will find others eager to tell you what to do and think and be. But it is better to go apart and learn to be yourself.
— Upton Sinclair, World's End
I am who I am and that's it!
— Jen Calonita, Broadway Lights
Be different.. be yourself.
— Vikrmn, Guru with Guitar
If you are not yourself, you have nothing to offer the world but a cheap imitation of someone else.
— E'yen A. Gardner, Love Letters
Often we want to be somewhere other than where we are, to even to be someone other than who we are. We tend to compare ourselves constantly with others and wonder why we are not as rich, as intelligent, as simple, as generous, or as saintly as they are. Such comparisons make us feel guilty, ashamed, or jealous. It is very important to realize that our vocation is hidden in where we are and who we are. We are unique human beings, each with a call to realize in life what nobody else can, and to realize it in the concrete context of the here and now.We will never find our vocations by trying to figure out whether we are better or worse than others. We are good enough to do what we are called to do. Be yourself!
— Henri J.M. Nouwen, Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith
If they don`t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more
— Taylor Swift
Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to be who you are.
— Joan Bauer, Tell Me
people are intimidated by people they cannot imitate.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved...
— Dean Koontz, Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure
in a crowd of roses, choose to be a sunflower.thornless. unwithering. abundant in seeds
— JaTawny M. Chatmon
I know when to be sexy. I know when to be smart. I know when to make you think I believe you. It's human nature to know these things. The only way you'll truly survive.
— T.Taylor
You have the approval of yourself. That's quite enough for we who know true inner peace! - Charmainism
— Charmaine Smith Ladd, Shake Hands with Yourself: A Peacemaker's Guide to Happiness & Inner Peace
Be You! It is so enchanting to see the beauty that radiates from someone freely expressing their uniqueness.
— Steve Maraboli
The opinions of others should not deter you from being yourself..
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am who I am and I am who I was, and I am who I will always be!
— Emrys
Be yourself.Become all that you want to be.You should go as far as you can.There is no limit to what you can achieve.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be yourself, be who you can be.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Come out of hiding, don't be afraid to be yourself.
— E'yen A. Gardner, Detox 21: 21 day cleansing of the soul
You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to be you so be you proudly.
— Tegan Quin
Life's too short to live someone else's
— Nathan W. Morris
Everything just feels so empty without her. She was more a parent to me than my birth parents were. She took me in, fed, dressed me, but most importantly, she treated me with respect. She taught me that my abilities were nothing to be ashamed of, nothing I should try so hard to deny. She convinced me that what I had was a gift-not a curse- and that I shouldn't let other people's narrow minds and fears determine how I love, what I do, or how I perceive myself in the world. She actually made me believe that in no way, shape, or form did their uninformed opinions make me a freak.
— Alyson Noel, Night Star
But then Macon smiled at me. "Just be yourself, Foster. That's the best thing in the world.
— Joan Bauer, Close to Famous
Nevertheless You are Yourself, you cannot win the World
— Vignesh S.V.
When we know Love, fear has no value in our presence. There is no pressure to perform and mask our humanity. We can BE and when we BE. We can inspire others to BE.
— E'yen A. Gardner
Don't dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Break the rules, stand apart, ignore your head, and follow your heart,
— Paula Abdul
Don't let other people's opinions distort your reality. Be true to yourself. Be bold in pursuing your dreams. Be unapologetically you!
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
It's simple; be YOU. If you're not being you, you're being someone else. YOU are not here to be someone else.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Life is simple, just be yourself.
— E'yen A. Gardner
Trust is learning how you feel about yourself,not how others feel about you.Do you trust how you feel.If not, why.
— Ron W. Rathbun
The day you feel that you know  Everything in life Is the day you don't try to learn something new in life
— Rehaman M
If you’re not working on the best idea right now, you’re wasting your time & money
— Pedro Perry
I don't care what you think unless it is about me.
— Kurt Cobain
Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts
— Bernard M. Baruch
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I am crushed by your poor opinionBut will endeavor to carry on.
— Amanda Quick, Second Sight
Isn’t Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life.
— Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings
You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.
— Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon
The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like.
— Frank Zappa
The worst time to give someone your opinion, is when no one has asked for it.
— Cory Stallworth
I don't represent anyone's opinion. Not even my own. I'm neutral.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
I can see by your face that I'll never persuade you. And that's surprising, because usually you at least try to see my side."I can see your side," said Cecily. "I've got a much clearer view of it than you do, from over here on my side.
— Orson Scott Card
The work is at such a high level and is so well executed, it really is a matter of taste... [Source: Project Runway — but consider, applied to the theme of book reviews, it seems apropos!]
— Tim Gunn
It isn't death, pain, exile or anything else you care to mention that accounts for the way we act, only our opinion about death, pain and the rest.
— Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings
In order for you to insult me, I would first have to value your opinion.
— Unknown
Each year, take a step aside, look back, and recognize how the people you have met, what you have read, and what you've heard, have changed you slightly for the better or maybe slightly worse. Similarly, you can respect that each day you learn more, you understand less, so the more you understand, the less you express a desire to learn. If this seems too deep, remember that I know nothing, and am literally a fool and still a kid, relatively.
— Mark Sherman Smeester
looking for the pi in my onion
— Natasha Tsakos
In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ...
— Alison Weir, The Princes in the Tower
Where did it go, the moderate opine? I can't find it here nor there!'Perhaps then it's twixt the false dichotomy?
— Kevin Focke
Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...
— Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter
We are not the passive victim of others' opinions. Their opinions are powerless until we validate them.
— John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
I would never tell you what to believe, Daniel, so please don't tell me that my opinion is wrong. We should be allowed a few basic human rights in life: the right to decide what goes into our bodies and the right to have an opinion without feeling shamed for it.
— Jewel E. Ann, Scarlet Stone
Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that.
— Agatha Christie, Murder in the Mews
I most likely like books which are out of my language... English... for example is a great example - Not my native language, but I enjoy the covers and how the words sound.
— Deyth Banger
Instead, every precaution was taken not to violate his rights. Remember, many administrators have no difficulty in expelling a student who utters an unwelcome opinion about the immorality of homosexuality.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases.
— Max Weber
Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
A man has no more right to an opinion for which he cannot account than for a glass of beer for which he cannot pay.
— Anonymous
To stupid or what???I really don't get it... why do you agree always!?Don't you have an opinion... so far I have onion with prefix "Op" and what somehow from nowhere a prefix and suffix I build a word called itself an a "opinion"...
— Deyth Banger
Don't be too hasty, don't take somebody else's opinion without testing it.
— Franz Kafka, The Trial
The main misfortune, the root of all the evil to come, was the loss of confidence in the value of one’s own opinion. People imagined that it was out of date to follow their own moral sense, that they must all sing in chorus, and live by other people’s notions, notions that were being crammed down everybody’s throat.
— Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
if you wanna make friends , you have to be hypocrite , but if you wanna have best friends you need to be honest to them
— Friends
Well, whose opinion did you take?”“I don’t ask for opinions.”“What do you go by?”“Judgment.”“Well, whose judgment did you take?”“Mine.”“But whom did you consult about it?”“Nobody.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
A man who should undertake to inquire into everything for himself, could devote to each thing but little time and attention. His task would keep his mind in perpetual unrest, which would prevent him from penetrating to the depth of any truth, or of grappling his mind indissolubly to any conviction. His intellect would be at once independent and powerless. He must therefore make his choice from amongst the various objects of human belief, and he must adopt many opinions without discussion, in order to search the better into that smaller number which he sets apart for investigation. It is true that whoever receives an opinion on the word of another, does so far enslave his mind; but it is a salutary servitude which allows him to make a good use of freedom.A principle of authority must then always occur, under all circumstances, in some part or other of the moral and intellectual world. Its place is variable, but a place it necessarily has. The independence of individual minds may be greater, or it may be less: unbounded it cannot be. Thus the question is, not to know whether any intellectual authority exists in the ages of democracy, but simply where it resides and by what standard it is to be measured.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
There are opinions and then there are opinions...behold the nature of mankind.
— Will Leamon
My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it.
— Søren Kierkegaard, Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs
If your opinion needs to be corrected than it is not your opinion.
— Kim Yannayon
An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.
— Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
Ray was always of the opinion that a handful was more than enough. Anything else just tends to sag, once it’s out of a bra.
— Jason Medina, A Ghost In New Orleans
...Opinion without a rational process.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Effectiveness comes when the opinion of a person comes into agreement with God’s opinion.
— Sunday Adelaja
When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he is a saint orthey are not telling the whole story.
— Zafon Ruiz C.
If there are any persons who contest a received opinion,or who will do so if law or opinion will let them, let us thankthem for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoicethat there is some one to do for us what we otherwise ought,if we have any regard for either the certainty or the vitality ofour convictions, to do with much greater labor for ourselves.
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer. A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is.
— Seneca
If you believe that some opinions are in fact better than others, then you, too, are an elitist of sorts.
— Michael Harris
Being an independent modern day diva is cute...BUT being dedicated, faithful, willing to face the world together, monogamous, honest, family orientated, caring, nurturing, dependable, affectionate, easy to work with, hard working, and a woman I can call my own...is down right sexy. BUT THAT'S JUST MY HUMBLE OPINION
— claris yetunde ramsin
Nothing is my last word on anything.
— Henry James
Never give your opinion on someone's writing unless they ask sincerely, and never ask for someone's opinion unless you're sincere.
— Justin Alcala
Keep your negativity to yourself. After watching you poison your own life with your opinions, I would be foolish to let you do the same to mine.
— Steve Maraboli
God does not seek the opinions of others about your life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment that there are others whose opinion, and even whose wish, is entitled to a greater amount of consideration than his.
— John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
The chemists who uphold dualism are far from being agreed among themselves; nevertheless, all of them in maintaining their opinion, rely upon the phenomena of chemical reactions. For a long time the uncertainty of this method has been pointed out: it has been shown repeatedly, that the atoms put into movement during a reaction take at that time a new arrangement, and that it is impossible to deduce the old arrangement from the new one. It is as if, in the middle of a game of chess, after the disarrangement of all the pieces, one of the players should wish, from the inspection of the new place occupied by each piece, to determine that which it originally occupied.
— Auguste Laurent, Chemical Method, Notation, Classification, & Nomenclaturi
Impression forms opinion, opinion deforms truth!
— Abhijit Kar Gupta
When you reach voting age, we will take your opinion under consideration.
— Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April
I like your opera - I think I will set it to music
— Ludwig van Beethoven
What I mean is something like a closed circuit. Everybody on the same frequency. And after a while you forget about the rest of the spectrum and start believing that this is the only frequency that counts or is real. While outside, all up and down the land, there are these wonderful colors and x-rays and ultraviolets going on.
— Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner: Early Stories
Privilege" is something else."Privilege" is a judgment."Privilege" is an opinion."Privilege" is an accusation.
— Joan Didion, Blue Nights
At this very moment you are probably basing your value on how other people value you, even though most of the time, you don’t even know what these people really think. You are assuming what they think based on behavior you interpreted. In truth, most people don’t think about you at all. They are too focused on their own stuff. And if they do think about you, they probably don’t think what you think they think. You are most likely projecting your own fears of not being good enough onto them. What you think they think tells you more about your own opinion of yourself than theirs.
— Kimberly Giles, Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness
I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion? But that’s a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people. Tough.
— Daniel C. Dennett
It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.
— Oscar Wilde, Criticism and Reviews
Speaking one’s mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The present importance of the Book of Job cannot be expressed adequately even by saying that it is the most interesting of ancient books. We may almost say of the Book of Job that it is the most interesting of modern books. In truth, of course, neither of the two phrases covers the matter, because fundamental human religion and fundamental human irreligion are both at once old and new; philosophy is either eternal or it is not philosophy. The modern habit of saying, 'This is my opinion, but I may be wrong,' is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying 'Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and its suits me'; the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Book of Job
Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy. From our perspective it is easy to mistake one for the other; which he is time will tell.
— A.C. Grayling
The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the Logic, of the High Intelligence!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information.
— George Eliot, Adam Bede
Polls could be self-fulfilling prophecies, shaping reality as much as they described it.
— Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
As far as it is your opinion it is not wrong, what matters is that it is your opinion.
— Shrey Srivastava
Life is too short to waste time waiting for other people's approval on how you live it.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.
— Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Now against the specialist, against the man who studies only art or electricity, or the violin, or the thumbscrew or what not, there is only one really important argument, and that, for some reason or other, is never offered. People say that specialists are inhuman; but that is unjust. People say an expert is not a man; but that is unkind and untrue. The real difficulty about the specialist or expert is much more singular and fascinating. The trouble with the expert is never that he is not a man; it is always that wherever he is not an expert he is too much of an ordinary man. Wherever he is not exceptionally learned he is quite casually ignorant. This is the great fallacy in the case of what is called the impartiality of men of science. If scientific men had no idea beyond their scientific work it might be all very well — that is to say, all very well for everybody except them. But the truth is that, beyond their scientific ideas, they have not the absence of ideas but the presence of the most vulgar and sentimental ideas that happen to be common to their social clique. If a biologist had no views on art and morals it might be all very well. The truth is that the biologist has all the wrong views of art and morals that happen to be going about in the smart set of his time.
— G.K. Chesterton
It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
— Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
I was just telling Claire about a guy I met in bread class. I hate him, but he could be my soul mate.
— Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
Autumn...the year's last, loveliest s
— John Howard Bryant
On the day the tree bloomed in the fall, when its white apple blossoms fell and covered the ground like snow, it was tradition for the Waverleys to gather in the garden like survivors of some great catastrophe, hugging one another, laughing as they touched faces and arms, making sure they were all okay, grateful to have gotten through it.
— Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cézanne
October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!
— Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
Some of Bay's fondest memories were of lying under the apple tree in the summer while Claire gardened and the apple tree tossed apples at her like a dog trying to coax its owner into playing catch.
— Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.
— Jim Bishop
Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.
— Rémy de Gourmont
With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. Sometimes the heavy cold rains would beat it back so that it would seem that it would never come and that you were losing a season out of your life. This was the only truly sad time in Paris because it was unnatural. You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason. In those days, though, the spring always came finally but it was frightening that it had nearly failed.
— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.
— Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
AUTUMNAL Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees, That hardly sway before a breeze As soft as summer: summer's loss Seems little, dear! on days like these. Let misty autumn be our part! The twilight of the year is sweet: Where shadow and the darkness meet Our love, a twilight of the heart Eludes a little time's deceit. Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let us dream. Beyond the pearled horizons lie Winter and night: awaiting these We garner this poor hour of ease, Until love turn from us and die Beneath the drear November trees.
— Ernest Dowson, The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.
— Henry Beston
LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snow-flakes — gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another’s umbrellas in a general infection of ill-temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if the day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest. Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little ’prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds. Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy. Most of the shops lighted two hours before their time — as the gas seems to know, for it has a haggard and unwilling look. The raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest, and the muddy streets are muddiest near that leaden-headed old obstruction, appropriate ornament for the threshold of a leaden-headed old corporation, Temple Bar. And hard by Temple Bar, in Lincoln’s Inn Hall, at the very heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery.
— Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.
— Hal Borland
I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers and greens in every lush shade imaginable offset by autumnal flashes of red and yellow.
— Wendy Delsol, Stork
There's nothing happy about love at all!! I would rather have not known real love... if it hurts this much.
— Chitose Yagami, Fall in Love Like a Comic! Vol. 1
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
— P.D. James, A Taste for Death
The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Give me a land of boughs in leafA land of trees that stand
— Where trees are fallen there is grief
October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.
— Keith Donohue
A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.
— Eoin Colfer, Airman
A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence, the sun growing colder like our affections, the rivers becoming frozen like our lives--all bear secret relations to our destinies.
— François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
Walls don't fall without effort.
— Neal Shusterman, Bruiser
It was one of those perfect New York October afternoons, when the explosion of oranges and yellows against the bright blue sky makes you feel like your life is passing through your fingers, that you've felt this autumn-feeling before and you'll probably get to feel it again, but one day you won't anymore, because you'll be dead.
— Sarah Dunn, Secrets to Happiness
It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.
— Pam Houston, Waltzing the Cat
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orc
— Walt Whitman, The Complete Poems
Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.
— Charles Nodier, Smarra & Trilby
The goldenrod is yellow,The corn is turning brown...The trees in apple orchardsWith fruit are bending down.
— Helen Hunt Jackson
StillIn the fall, I believe again in poetryif nothing else it isa movement of the mind.Summers ball togetherinto sticky lumps,spring evenings are glass beads from one mouldfor standard-size youth,winter a smooth heaviness, not even cold.But the mind trembleshere, on the brinkthe mind tremblesthere is life, after all,there is life, stillunbelief left.
— Jaakko A. Ahokas
The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air.
— Wallace Stegner, Remembering Laughter
Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.
— Patricia Cornwell, The Body Farm
But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North")
— Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
…Henry is tired of winter,& haircuts, & a squeamish comfy ruin-prone proud national mind, & Spring (in the city so called)Henry likes Fall.Hé would be prepared to líve in a world of Fállfor ever, impenitent Henry.But the snows and summers grieve and dream;These fierce & airy occupations, and love,raved away so many of Henry’s yearsit is a wonder that, with in each handone of his own mad books and all,ancient fires for eyes, his head full& his heart full, he's making ready to move on.
— John Berryman, 77 Dream Songs
...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
— Alice Hoffman, Here on Earth
I love autumn", Emily said to me. "It wins you over with its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
— Nicholas Sparks, Two By Two
I'll rise and fall, let me take credit for both.
— Pearl Jam, Vitalogy   Letras
Shigure: *pokes Rit in the side* JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL! <3 Rit: *falls*
— Natuski Takaya
A curt voice echoed in Nathaniel’s head, "Prep for impact. This is going to hurt.
— Jonathan Marker, SPYDER SYLK
Let whoever wants to, relax in the south,And bask in the garden of paradise.Here is the essence of northand it's autumnI've chosen as this year's friend.
— Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Autumn. The grace in letting dead things fall.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Halloween creatures both friendly & gruesome peered out of the rustling leaves.
— Kevin  Purdy
See you in the fall.
— Justine Larbalestier, Liar
The air had a cool crispness to it and the leaves on the trees had begun turning yellow and red.
— Carla Reighard, Elle's Magical Shoes
In the fall nature informs us of its artistic side. It again confirms the beauty of the world. Nature is art perfected.
— Brent M. Jones
Arthur, do you think the fall of the Wall means anything? Do you think that this means that even one fewer body will burn?
— David Burr Gerrard, Short Century: A Novel
Outside there's a chill in the air that reminds me autumn is on the way, even though it's still only September. This time of year is my absolute favourite; the leaves start to turn golden and wither away after their summer of hard work, and the sun seems to shine a lot more clearly as the mist from the summer heat disappears. Everything just seems a little brighter and fresher--a clean slate. That's exactly what I need.
— Zoe Sugg, Girl Online Going Solo
Everything put together is made to fall apart.
— Jeffrey Fry
I want to fall in love, with an emphasis on the falling part.
— Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star
In life and in a boxing ring, the defeat is not declared when you fall down. It is declared only when you refuse to get up
— Manoj Arora, Dream On
Before Any Fall, The Original Plan Is Already Initiated For His Purpose
— Sunday Adelaja
Everything does fall. It must be gravity.
— Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
The river this November afternoonRests in an equipoise of sun and cloud:A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroudIts passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.
— Cecil Day-Lewis, The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis
The Empire must fall.
— Chuck Wendig, Life Debt
The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Autumn is an interesting season, even in the metaphor of life, is a time of decline, of loss, but also intense and haunting beauty.Some places, like some people, never are, or have been, as beautiful in their fall.
— Luigina Sgarro
The gold and scarlet leaves that littered the countryside in great drifts whispered and chuckled among themselves, or took experimental runs from place to place, rolling like coloured hoops among the trees. It was as if they were practising something, preparing for something, and they would discuss it excitedly in rustly voices as they crowded round the tree trunks.
— Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals
We should wait six-seven months. Maybe, upon spring's arrival, our love would blossom. As of now, dry-lifeless-forlorn, it resembles the fall foliage. Beautiful, nonetheless!#BeyondAutumn
— Saru Singhal
Dorcas wasn't a fast walker. It was difficult for me to keep behind her. I tried to let others, joggers, and bicyclists, come between us. I followed her past a field where girls were playing soccer, and into the woods bordering Catamount Creek. The smell of pine needles underfoot was sharp, pungent. I seemed to know that I would always associate that smell with this afternoon, and with Dorcas.
— Joyce Carol Oates, Beasts
I told some imprecisely imagined interlocutor that each year I hoped to have outgrown being moved by the autumn and each year I hadn't
— Brigid Brophy, The King of a Rainy Country
Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath.
— Stefan Bachmann, The Peculiar