I think it is easy to stop ourselves from being too bright, too happy, too successful. Conformity also soothes us. We can predict it, and there is the illusion of control. Unfortunately, we also stop ourselves from being too visible, unusual or vivid.

-- SARK, Succulent Wild Woman

"The porcupine with the sharpest quills gets stuck on a tree more often."

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"But I warn you," she said, "I am only really myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination."

- Zelda Fitzgerald, Save Me the Waltz

 Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
- William James