Do not allow the magic inside you to go stale because someone else is blinded by your light. It isn’t your job to dull your personality so that they can be more comfortable, but it IS your responsibility to shine.

بهتر به نشستن خاموش در گوشه ای، مثل یک مرد ناشنوا که زبان قطع شده است، از به یکی از کسانی که بدون تفکر صحبت می کند. Better to sit silent in a corner, like a deaf man whose tongue has been cut, than to be one of those who speaks without thinking.

your energy introduces you before you even speak.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

And when you get something good, please don’t go looking for something better.

Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care about, ideas that matter to you, beliefs you can stand by, tickets you can run on. Intelligent humans make those choices with their brain and hearts and they make them alone. The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful…and decide what you want and need and must do. It’s a tough, unimaginably lonely and complicated way to be in the world. But that’s the deal: you have to live; you can’t live by slogans, dead ideas, clichés, or national flags. Finding an identity is easy. It’s the easy way out.

My only goal in life right now is to be genuinely happy.