1123 – “I’m just so proud of all of you who have grown up with us, and I know how tough it is some days to look with hope and confidence on the months and years ahead. But I would like to tell you what I often told you when you were much younger. I like you just the way you are.”

-Mister Rodgers

1097 – “Go where you’re celebrated, not where you’re tolerated.”

-anonymous

1050 – “Everyone’s got a gift inside of us, and in all honesty, the pursuit of normality is the ultimate sacrifice of potential. The chance for greatness, progress, and change dies the moment we try to be someone else.”

-Faith Jegede

1015 – “The person that you will spend the most time with in your life is yourself, so better try to make yourself as interesting as possible.”

-anonymous

1000 – “The most dangerous risk of all – The risk of spending your life not doing what you want, on the bet that you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”

-anonymous

472 – “Be you. Make sure you’re saying something when you’re saying something. It’s important to sound like you, feel like you, be like you. Be you.”

–Erykah Badu [Attributed]