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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums5. See the benefit in being unique. If you’re thinking like everyone else, you aren’t thinking.
And if you arent thinking, you arent truly living."
From: 7 Ways to Stop Fearing What Everyone Thinks of You
http://www.marcandangel.com/2013/10/06/7-ways-to-stop-fearing-what-everyone-thinks-of-you/
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"A life spent ceaselessly trying to please people who, perhaps, are incapable of ever being pleased,
or trying too hard to always be seen as doing the right thing, is a sure road to a regretful existence.
Do more than just exist. We all exist. The question is: Do you live?"
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These were just snippets I thought might be useful for some to think about.
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5. See the benefit in being unique. If you’re thinking like everyone else, you aren’t thinking. (Original Post)
jtuck004
Sep 2015
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Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)1. As my old sig line used to say
Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines."
K. Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Don't hang around with anyone who doesn't think you're wonderful
bemildred
(90,061 posts)2. More to the point it is impossible to tell what someone else thinks unless they want you to know.
I know all the time I talk to people who think they know what I think, and often they are way off target, and mostly I don't try to correct them. Some people get annoyed when you tell them they are wrong about what you think.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)3. Self-contradicting thought is self-contradicting.
"If you're thinking like everyone else, you aren't thinking" said the man who wants everyone else to think this way.
Seems kind of middle school-ish.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)4. That's deep. lol. n/t