The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Lorraine Hansberry — Letter to The Ladder

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You don't pursue them to pass tests or drop names at a cocktail party—but to live a wise life, a mindful life, a good life. There are people everywhere who are doing just that. Their stories aren't told in the media or made into motion pictures, but they are far better role models than movie stars or pop singers.

Ted Gioia

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There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law. It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.

Henry David Thoreau — Journal

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