It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.
You are you. Now, isn't that unpleasant?
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
There are a lot of things in this world that are more important than being popular. Being true to yourself is one of them.
From this point of view, to avoid your strengths and to focus on your weaknesses isn't a sign of diligent humility. It is almost irresponsible. By contrast the most responsible, the most challenging, and, in the sense of being true to yourself, the most honorable thing to do is face up to the strength potential inherent in your talents and then find ways to realize it.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.
I've learned that you have to stay true to yourself from all the amazing people I've had the opportunity to work with thus far. You have to stay true to yourself and don't be afraid even though people may say what you're doing isn't cool or isn't right. I promise you, you will not regret it if you stay true to who you are and what you love to do because there is no other reason that I am up here today receiving this award.
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.
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.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
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.
Don't move. Just die over and over. Don't anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don't move.
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