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whatβs my mantra or motto in life? βοΈ
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
Sylvia Plath
I never wish to be easily defined. Iβd rather float over other peopleβs minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
Franz Kafka
I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.
Stephen Fry
For what itβs worth... itβs never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. Thereβs no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things youβve never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life youβre proud of, and if youβre not, I hope you have the courage to start over again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald