Tracy
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Tracy
‘I Get *So* Anxious Over How People React to Me!’
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The goal is not to fit in. If anything, it’s to amplify the differences, what doesn’t fit, the special characteristics unique to how you see the world. Instead of sounding like others, value your own voice. Develop it. Cherish it.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves
Brene Brown • Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
affirmations of a strange rabbit🐇
instagram.comWe get older, we find life is riven with weirdness. We should be weird too.
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
Above almost any other need, human beings long to have another person look into their face with loving respect and acceptance.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
If being ignored hollows us out, then being truly seen (not liked, not followed, not “engaged with”) but seen, can feel almost unbearable. Because while we claim to crave attention, many of us are silently terrified of what it might uncover. What if someone looks too closely and sees the neediness we have camouflaged as chill? The resentment we hav... See more