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Take your work seriously, but never yourself. - Margot Fonteyn

Take your work seriously, but never yourself. – Margot Fonteyn

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Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. – Margot Fonteyn

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When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep. Nay, and when I walk alone in a beautiful Orchard, if my Thoughts are some part of the Time taken up with strange Occurrences, I some part of the Time call them back again to my Walk, or to the Orchard, to the Sweetness of the Solitude, and to my self. – Michel de Montaigne, “Of Experience,” translated from French by Charles Cotton

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Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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The inward light is forever striving to gather enough additional light to penetrate the fog of our senses. – Henry Stanley Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street, 1940, originally published an

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