Monday, April 9, 2012

Monday Morning Motivation




"Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization."
~ Frederick E. Crane

You are not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor should you feel the world must live up to yours.
 – F Perl. 

“You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.”
 ~Ethan Embry

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”
 ~Malcolm Muggeridge 

"Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality."
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting." 
-e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

“Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive.”
~Gerard Way





2 comments:

  1. Or in the immortal words of Robert Downey, Jr.:

    "Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway."

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  2. Hey Phil- That fits in nicely with how I feel right now! ha ha

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