

“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
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“You have two choices in life...Choice one is to be the same and be like everyone else...Choice two is to be yourself and be a difference-maker.”
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“If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”
― Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon
― Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon

“It wasn't about how she looked, which was pretty, even though she was always wearing the wrong clothes and those beat-up sneakers. It wasn't about what she said in class--usually something no one else would've thought of, and if they had, something they wouldn't have dared to say. It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious.
It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't.”
― Beautiful Creatures
It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't.”
― Beautiful Creatures

“When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.”
― Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson
― Pathways to perfection;: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson
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