Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give some people. ~Tom Masson
Once conform; once do what others do because they do it; and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance; you feel a loss of energy; loss of power; a sense of spiritual deadness. ~Shakti Gawain
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment; God would ask him; not why he had not been Moses; but why he had not been Zusya. ~Walter Kaufmann
"He who travels in search of something which he has not got; travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson; ""Self-Reliance"""
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I am much better employed from every point of view; when I live solely for my own satisfaction; than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me; and a frightened man is no good for anything. ~George Gissing
There is just one life for each of us:? our own. ~Euripides
If you are ashamed to stand by your colors; you had better seek another flag. ~Author Unknown
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. ~e.e. cummings; 1955
Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ~Fran?ois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings
You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. ~Irene C. Kassorla
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask; and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire; but my heart is all my own. ~Johann von Goethe; The Sorrows of Young Werther; 1774
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. ~Fran?ois; Duc de La Rochefoucauld; Maxims; 1665
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess; and to gain applause which he cannot keep. ~Samuel Johnson; The Rambler; 1750
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being; only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is; ever be put together a second time. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude; without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Scarlet Letter
Be who you are and say what you feel; because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr.Seuss
Originality is... a by-product of sincerity. ~Marianne Moore
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ~Homer
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story; and writes another. ~James Matthew Barrie
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~Gabrielle ""Coco"" Chanel"
There is in a man an upwelling spring of life; energy; love; whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it; it turns the ground round it into a swamp. ~Mark Rutherford (William Hale White); More Pages from a Journal; 1910
If God had wanted me otherwise; He would have created me otherwise. ~Johann von Goethe
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. ~Oscar Wilde
Individualism is rather like innocence:? There must be something unconscious about it. ~Louis Kronenberger; Company Manners; 1954
We are betrayed by what is false within. ~George Meredith
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. ~Desiderius Erasmus
Wherever you go; go with all your heart. ~Confucius
Let the world know you as you are; not as you think you should be; because sooner or later; if you are posing; you will forget the pose; and then where are you?? ~Fanny Brice
"All my life I had been looking for something; and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too; though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was na?ve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I; and only I; could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with:? that I am nobody but myself. ~Ralph Ellison; ""Battle Royal"""
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. ~Eric Hoffer
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. ~Samuel Johnson
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so; you apologize for the truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli
"An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. ~Honor? de Balzac; ""Scnes de la vie Parisienne;"" La Maison Nucingen; 1838"
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. ~John Morley
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ~Julius Charles Hare
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. ~Oscar Wilde; L'Envoi to Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf; 1882
God has given you one face; and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare
The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if; day after day; you say the opposite of what you feel; if you grovel before what you dislike; and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. ~Boris Pasternak
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. ~Raymond Hull
The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. ~Charles R. Brown
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself; and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. ~Shirley MacLaine
There lurks; perhaps; in every human heart a desire of distinction; which inclines every man first to hope; and then to believe; that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. ~Samuel Johnson
If you cannot be a poet; be the poem. ~David Carradine
We all wear masks; and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. ~Andr? Berthiaume; Contretemps
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. ~Andre Gide
We are what we pretend to be; so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~Kurt Vonnegut
Learn to... be what you are; and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
"A man who is ""of sound mind"" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. ~Paul Val?ry; Mauvaises pens?es et autres; 1942"
You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~John Mason
"Man would be ""otherwise.""? That's the essence of the specifically human. ~Antonio Machado"
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions; their lives a mimicry; their passions a quotation. ~Oscar Wilde; De Profundis; 1905
Always be a first-rate version of yourself; instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland
No creature is fully itself till it is; like the dandelion; opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun; the entire living cosmos. ~D.H. Lawrence
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