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Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Whatever ought to be, can be.

— James Rouse

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If things are not so good, you may be one to imagine something better. For me, I was able to imagine myself as in a role of greater importance than I would seem to be ordinarily.

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

— Ani DiFranco

People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

— Melissa Leo

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

— Wayne Dyer

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

— Eric Butterworth

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

— Soren Kierkegaard

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think when you're put into a completely different situation and environment, you really see who you are. You're not affected by what's around you. You are who you are.

— Lauren Conrad

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

— John Fowles