“Don't try to be beautiful. Just be real, and this is already beautiful enough.”
Jeff Foster (1980) Spiritual teacher
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Raymond Radiguet (1903–1923) French writer
L'originalité consiste à essayer de faire comme tout le monde sans y parvenir. <br class="br">As quoted by Jean Cocteau in his acceptance speech http://books.google.com/books?id=QXtJAAAAMAAJ&q=%22L'originalit%C3%A9+consiste+%C3%A0+essayer+de+faire+comme+tout+le+monde+sans+y+parvenir%22&pg=PA18#v=onepage to the Académie Française (20 October 1955)
“Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else — and failing.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Raymond Radiguet, who was quoted by Cocteau in his acceptance speech to the Académie Française (October 1955)
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“It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
Source: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind