别人
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.
"In the end, we are all just stories, told by others and ourselves."
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what others want us to be.
"In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others."
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.
"The act of reading is an act of empathy. You are stepping into someone else's shoes, seeing the world through their eyes."
The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
One isn't born one's self. One is born with mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas—and you have to work through it all.
