“Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.”

“It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time — and they feel that you are trying — to make them happy. And you rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself.”

“Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.”

“Oh it tears me up
I try to hold on but it hurts too much
I try to forgive, but it's not enough to make it all okay.”

“Being superficially different is the goal of so many of the products we see... rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing the resources and caring enough to try and make something better.”

“Why do magazines do this to women? It's
all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough, guess what? Men win. That's how they keep us down.”

“Do not try to make the brilliant pupil a replica of yourself.”

“Either don't try at all or make damned sure you succeed.”
Aut non rem temptes aut perfice.

“There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.”

“Don't try to be beautiful. Just be real, and this is already beautiful enough.”