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Tag Tag Authenticity
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Address · 2005

Quotes

“A cultivated class, for example, finds most difficulty in getting on with another which has acquired part—but only part—of its culture and customs.”

Arnold J. Toynbee · No reliable source

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”

Steve Jobs · Stanford Commencement Address, 2005 · Primary source

“The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Harvard Divinity School Address, 1838 · Primary source

“My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Self-Reliance, 1841 · Primary source

“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Friendship, 1841 · Primary source

“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · No reliable source

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson · No reliable source

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