It is better to be hated for ...

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

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

Quotes from the same author

Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
 Andre Gide
Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
 Andre Gide
Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
 Andre Gide
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
 Andre Gide
Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
 Andre Gide