To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

E.e. Cummings
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting. Unfortunately, we are not free to make our own choices. We do not have the opportunity to design our lives without someone else’s influence. We must earn our successes, and we must earn our failures. But, we also have the option of choosing to accept those challenges and opportunities on their own terms.

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