"You can ignore reality but you can not ignore consequences of ignoring reality " -Ayn
As introverts, we receive a lot of negative feedback for simply being ourselves. We are perceived as strange because we are quiet. We are chastised for not being extroverted enough. In short, we are made to feel that our true self is not acceptable. So, we fabricate a different self that will fit in better in society. It becomes very hard to separate who we are from who we think we should be. - Mikaela Chung
The danger of having the gap between who we are and who we think we should be is that it too often becomes a breeding ground for toxic levels of self-loathing.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing." - Muhammad Ali.
"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." - Muhammad Ali.
"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe." - Muhammad Ali.
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand
"It takes courage to stand up and speak your mind, but it takes a whole lot more to shut up and listen." - W. Churchill
"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong." - Muhammad Ali.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.
- Ralph Marston
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
- Douglas Adams.
"Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist." - Muhammad Ali.