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Words of Inspiration: “Being True to You”
Secrets of a Renaissance Diva: Dare to be your true self
A quote from one of my favorite authors:
A quote from one of my favorite authors:
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
– Alice Walker
Some other inspiring quotes on embracing the essence that makes you who you are:
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” -e.e. cummings, 1955
A Renaissance Diva dares to be herself, and dares to be different…
Words of Inspiration: “Forgive Yourself”
Here are some inspirational words from who I think is
The Epitome of a Renaissance Woman – Dr. Maya Angelou
“I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, ‘well, if I’d known better I’d have done better,’ that’s all.”
“So you say to people who you think you may have injured, ‘I’m sorry,’ and then you say to yourself, ‘I’m sorry.’ If we all hold on to the mistake, we can’t see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can’t see what we’re capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one’s own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that’s rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don’t have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as heck we should never teach.”
-Dr. Maya Angelou
