"When you find yourself searching for the strength to grow outside your
situation, however ideal or horrifying it may be, read this book. When
you find yourself adopting the opinions of those surrounding you rather
than waking each day with the joy and dare I say burden of exploring and
exposing that which is authentically you, read this book. We live in a
world where the strongest survive; where those who are unafraid to
speak their personal truth end up writing ours for us. Simply put, a
life lived in the shadow of fear is a life wasted."
-Andrew McMahon regarding Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self Reliance"
