Monday, November 21, 2011

Quote o' the Week

How it works:
Read the quotes below and write about how one (or more) applies to your life or how you can learn from it (10 points)

-OR-

Make a visual representation of a quote - drawing, painting, etc. (5 to 100 points depending on quality and effort)


The Quotes:

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
~ e.e. cummings, 1955

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
~ e.e. cummings

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
~ Harvey Fierstein

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
~ Benjamin Disraeli

"Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves.... Learn to love yourself for who you are and open so the world can see you shine."
~ James Poland

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not."
~ Andre Gide

"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."
~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne