Quotes about being-yourself

Nothing can be more hurtful to your heart than betraying yourself.

You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.

There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.

Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake?

When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.

To be deeply loved, means a willingness to cut yourself wide open, exposing your vulnerabilities... hopes, hurts, fears and flaws. Hiding behind the highlight reel of who you are, is the real you and that person is just as worthy of love. There is nothing more terrifying or fulfilling, than complete love, it's worth the risk... reach for it.

To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.

If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.

Being yourself is an old myth, being fake in this world of cruelness is a new trick

When I am, you are not.

Instead of writing my rules, I followed his. And that’s when I knew it all went wrong.

There's a difference between disclosing that which is only your business and hiding away from the world and not seeing, shining and sharing your magic.

When I am away, I am with it. When I am with it, I am away.

Adoption is outside. You act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn't belong. And you act it out by trying to do to others what has been done to you. It is impossible to believe anyone loves you for yourself.I never believed that my parents loved me. I tried to love them but it didn't work. It has taken me a long time to learn how to love - both the giving and the receiving. I have written about love obsessively, forensically, and I know/knew it as the highest value.I loved God of course

No one else can understand you better than you yourself.

My hair is not the shiniest of bobsMy eyes are not the brightest in the roomMy figure will not get me modeling jobsMy smile will not bring young boys to their doom.But do I cry and mourn my average face?Or wish that I had boyfriends at the ready?Do I not sleep because I lose the race,Or spurn my food because I don't go steady?My mind is on a more important thingThat lifts my heart and makes my spirit soarI want to make the souls of people singAnd quiet down the mean and bullying roar.To help the

It is less about becoming a better person, and more of being better, as a person.

Consider the fact that maybe…just maybe…beauty and worth aren’t found in a makeup bottle, or a salon-fresh hairstyle, or a fabulous outfit. Maybe our sparkle comes from somewhere deeper inside, somewhere so pure and authentic and REAL, it doesn’t need gloss or polish or glitter to shine.

Maybe it’s NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it.

If you must walk in someone's shadow make sure it's your own

A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations.

Entering into and opening to our inherent spacious soul daily allows a natural liberation of our manifold self-identifications to occur, and it is then that we can truly rest in the sacredness and come to know our ground of being. The great Celtic writer John O’Donohue points to this when he says that “behind the façade of your life, there is something beautiful and eternal happening.

And anyone will tell you that's the whole point. You want to meet someone who likes the same things you do, and who likes you most when you're most being yourself.

You cannot be who you are not. Simply rest, sit still and unknot. You may even try to emulate and inspire,But it's the inner self that you'll transpire.

Anybody who is imitating somebody else, no matter who it us, is heading in the wrong direction. It is impossible to become like somebody else. Your only hope is to become more fully yourself.

Don´t let your work define you. But let you define what works for you to defy and refine you even more.

My beliefs are the center of my being.

One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.

If you're the smartest person in the room, you might wanna switch rooms.

A person may learn things all their life, but never gain knowledge of truth.

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can't be in life.

Being gifted means facing the next level of depth without ever being repulsed by the curse that comes with the magic of being different.

It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things." "Like what?" I asked. My mouth was dry. "I don't know. Like take their hands when the slow song comes up for a change. Or be

I'd think, maybe he truly is something extraordinary. He's what he is, that's it. Maybe that makes him strong enough, being what he is.

The question is never 'who am I?' It's 'who do I want to be?

To be real is to be who you are according to the purpose which God wants you to accomplish but not to be who people want you to be according to what they think you should be.

Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.

When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.

Real is...just being you. It's not letting yourself be defined by other people's opinions of you, of who they think you are, or what they expect you to be. It's refusing to let them squash you into the box they've built for you, and just being yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. Because you're never going to matter to everyone, just like everyone's never going to matter to you. So you choose the people whose opinions you care about, and you be real for them.

There is no model, no actress, no Miss America contender that can outshine a happy, confident, secure woman.

A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know.

Stand strong in your worth and don't let anyone talk you out of it.

It’s better to be a “misfit” than a “one-size-fits-all”!

You have a destiny and a purpose that no one else on this earth can fulfill…and you have traveled a unique journey that has equipped you along the way with the tools you need to carry it out.

Don't be afraid to be who you are, no matter who that person might be.

Society sucks. It should not matter what others think, if we are fine with it. Still we both have to concern ourselves with what others might see and think.

Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.

Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.

True beauty can only be found in the true Self.

Think about the word mould for a moment. A mould is a device into which one crams and smashes something until it becomes the shape that they desire. Don't spend your life letting other people destroy you while they try and force you into their moulds.

Charm is simply a matter of being yourself. Your uniqueness is your power.

Being original is beautiful. Copying someone is just being a fool

So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!

We spend so long trying to be what other people want,that when we look in the mirror,we see a stranger.

Yes, you are Eskimo," he had said. "And never forget it. We live as no other people can, for we truly understand the earth.

He impressed people. Unconsciously. Some people are like that. I'm not. There's something in those people that breaks down all the barriers, because they act completely the way they are, have nothing to hide, never shelter behind anything, are just themselves, straightforward.

My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to the end of being. If he tries, he is submerged within a "private being" which has meaning only for himself. Now there is no meaning for a lone individual: bing alone would of itself reject the "private being" if it saw it as such (if I wish my life to have meaning for me, it is necessary that it have meaning for others: no one would dare give to life a meaning which he alone would perceive, from

Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence.

Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people.

I sometimes wonder how many beautiful black sweaters have been knit from my wool.

That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast.

... but as with so may diagnoses it is, in the end, the symptoms that matter, not the cause, because this is what being alive means, this is what being a person means, to be sickened by an illness known as you.

I write because I'm free,because I can,because I will. I write because I must,because I'm breathing,because I'd go crazy otherwise,because it's who I am.I write to make a statement,to share my thoughts,to discover myself,to express my ideas.But most of all, I write for future generations.I write for love. I write to inspire.I write to encourage. I write for me.

Understand yourself, accept yourself, but do not be yourself.

You want to be a river? This is not necessary because you can be a river without being a river; just flow in your life, this is what the rivers are doing, they are flowing! Remember, you can be anything without giving up yourself. Never wish to be something else, always be yourself! You want to be a Sun? Just give warmth to everyone with kind words!

He made you you—on purpose. You are the only you—ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our lives, not fighting him or ourselves. He looks at us with pleasure and with mercy, and he wants us to look at ourselves with pleasure and mercy too!

Jules was a proud little toy. She decided that she was going to work very hard to be the best wolf she could be.

We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.

While you might think the choices that leave no regrets behind are the minimal ones and the casual ones and the safe ones, I believe the opposite is true. Regret happens when we are still left with “what if.” Regret is the result of leaving a story within you still untold, a song inside of you never sung, a touch unique to your personhood that never was felt by another. When you lay everything on the line because you believe that much that the life you have been given is the utmost calling to be

It was almost painful to be different.

If you live life on your own terms it shouldn’t feel like a jail cell.

You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.

When there is no tension between the inner beingness and that which is being expressed, there is grace.

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.

God is the best makeup Artist I have ever seen however, you may get an honorable mention for sprucing.

Some will wear masks their entire life because they care about what other people think, while others remove the mask to be who they truly are. The difference between the two is not the ability to trust others, but to trust in God.

Most people just want to see you fall, that's more reason to stand tall.

Whomever you truly are... honor that person. No dream was ever realized by disappearing into the shadows of self-deceit and doubt.

An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken!

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?

After sounding a lot like other people in my decades of past I have found my own voice when I realized I needed Christ and in so doing I am becoming just like Him as time marches on.

We can't all succeed following the same path as successful men followed. Each person has it's own destiny. You might get stuck at any stage if it's not your way but you'll fly away if it's yours. Follow your mind and take serious anything you do.

So from now on, screw "perfect." Forget for a while about what kind of person you want to be, and just be the best version of the person you are. Figure out which of your classmates you genuinely like (not who you want to like you), and get to know them by telling your own stories and listening to theirs. Hang out with the people you think are cool, not the people you'd like to be considered cool by. Do things because they interest you, not because they make you look interesting... and then, tak

I'm not here to be small, to compare, to judge (myself or you), to fit in or to be perfect. I'm here to grow, to learn, to love, to be human.

When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.

Letting go of "stuff" allowed the world to collapse behind me as I moved, so I became nothing more or less than who I simply was: Me.

You are what you love, not who loves you.

When you give all your power to the powers that be, you take away the powers of thee.

I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the midst of so much doing.

Authenticity is about what makes you, you. It is an expression of your beingness.

Being here is such a contrast to where I’d otherwise be.

Dear heart, we embrace the song and the story and all our gifts because the world has such great need, and because the world exceedingly rejoices, and because there is no sadder thing than to leave this world having never really shown up.

Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there’s only grey – no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll or a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you’ll always be you.

Unfortunately, I am only myself. I am scared and alone and unsure, but I am practicing. I am scared and alone and unsure, but that doesn't mean I always will be.Like AJ repeating words, I can repeat being me, until I start to believe it.

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

I've learned that I have to stop equating saying yes with being a good person. I think I am being good when I say yes to everything, but saying yes to something I cannot live up to leads to bitterness and disappointment.

The thought of being whoever I want is a terrifying thing, because I have only ever been who everyone has wanted me to be.