Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
RE Ralph Waldo EmersonEssayist & poet · 1803–1882这句箴言的含义
Staying true to yourself against constant pressure to conform is a real and hard-won achievement — perhaps the greatest of all.
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American essayist and leader of Transcendentalism, championing self-reliance and the quiet authority of the individual.
This line is among the quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson that readers return to on 智慧 — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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