Quotes on Just Being You

You are you. Now, isn't that unpleasant?

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Just be yourself, there is no one better.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

If you're lucky enough to be different, never change.