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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
-- Maya Angelou
 

 

Saturday, July 26, 2025

True nature

You’re not some perfect, artificial persona, so don’t waste your effort trying to look like it. Be you, be real, be authentic.

There’s immense value in the actual person you are. Share that value with the people in your life, and with those you encounter.

One of the most wonderful experiences anyone can have is sincere human connection. Do all you can to make the experience possible for yourself and for others.

Carry yourself with dignity in a way that enables people to think well of you. But don’t bother with cultivating some fanciful image that no one will believe anyway.

You are who you are, and that’s a beautiful thing. Embrace that reality and share it generously.

Life is too precious and too full of great possibilities to waste any of it playing a fraudulent role. Always let the beauty of your true nature shine through.

— Ralph Marston

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