I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self. - jlh

I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie 

  The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. - Søren Kierkegaard 

  To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. - Theodore H. White