You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.

Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.

Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

The one thing I'll be: Me - whatever that might mean; and even if nothing, in that I'll still be king.

We are not as some people like to assume nowadays 'just being real' by embracing passively the sinful, fallen versions of ourselves. Quite the opposite really: our true selves were, from the beginning, intended to resemble the example which was then set by Christ Jesus; hence God wants to restore us to how we would have been had original sin never once befell.