It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are

Almost anybody can learn 

to think 

or 

believe 

or 

know, 

but not a single human being can be taught to feel.  

Why?  

Because whenever you think or believe or you know, you're a lot of other people:  but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.  

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.

- ee   Cummings