You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.
Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.
A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.
Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.
The devil's happy when the critics run you off.
You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.
I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.
Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.
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