good quotes make my life happy
“Self-confidence is so relaxing. There is no strain or stress when one is self-confident. Our lack of self-confidence comes from trying to be someone we aren't.”--Anne Wilson SchaefI found this quote last night and thought it was simply superb. There are so many people in this world who try and be someone they're not; they join organizations they hate in order to please someone else. They act dumber in order to be less intimidating for dating purposes. They censor their comments and pretend to be someone they aren't so that they still have a "good image". What is an image though? It's the preception people have of us based on the way we act, correct? So if our image is not our true self, then what are we? Nothing more than a shadow. Although I love Southlake, this is one of the majors problems with it. And not just Southlake, but American society as a whole. People feel the need to be someone they're not; they aspire to some ideal that is impossible to reach. The superficiality eventually drives them crazy and they end up a broken shell of someone who could have been great. Accept yourself for who you are; you are you, plain and simple. Nothing more, nothing less. Accept yourself with all your faults and dreams and ambitions and talents, because trying to be someone else is not going to work. You can never change who you are. It doesn't matter what you see when you look in the mirror; it matters what you see when you look inside yourself. Some people say happiness is unattainable in American Society today; I once said that myself. In fact, my junior year I wrote an entire essay entitled "The Death of the American Dream" about how happiness was unattainable in American Society today. I now see this as only half true. Happiness is unattainable when you conform to the superficial standards of American Society and care about what other people think of you and what you look like and try to change who you are for others. Conformity will not make you happy. However, I now see that happiness is attainable if you look inwardly, rather than outwardly. If you accept yourself and live your life in a way that you see as right (it doesn't matter what you do so long as you can justify your actions to yourself), only then can you truly be happy. Shakespeare really knew what he was talking about:
"This above all: to thine own self be true"
ahhh Polonius. Your only good line in the play, you wise old power hungry sycophantic bastard you.
when you think about this in terms of knowing who you are, can anybody see why this is my favorite quote ever?
"A Chinaman of the Tang Dynasty- and by which definition a philosopher- once dreamt he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security."
-Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
posted by kellyisdelightful @ 11:20 AM
4 Comments:
ahhh....the philosophical kelly is back in action. once again your views only enlighten me. gracias.
yes, tonight will be wondermus.
random memory number 2:
"is that you blasting eurotrip all throughout the neighborhood?"
HAHAHAHAHAHA YES!!! That was fantabulous! love you bunches darling.
games just aren't the same without you....
random memory number 4:
"mal, your at a football game...not giving birth!"
random memory number 6:
"...they are not here....OH HI MRS. CHAMBERS!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, my mom and siblings are out of town and my dad went to church....
:)
Mal~
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