How Nonconformity Cures a Sick Self and a Sick Society – The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson (suggested by Henry Chaussovsky)
“I must be myself, I cannot break myself any longer for you. . .If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance