Mary OliverInstructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
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Benjamin Franklin said, “Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” The way that people are today is based more on what they think that others will think of them than what they truly believe about themselves.
Those who have truly achieved some sort of greatness have done so by being themselves. They have never tried to put on a mask for any reason other than the fact that they simply couldn’t be anything else. They had to be themselves or else they would not have achieved anything of significance in their lives.
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