77 Quotes About Being Yourself

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. Mandy Hale

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. Jaeda DeWalt

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. . Mandy Hale

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. Mandy Hale

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. Meghan Don

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

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. Suzy Kassem

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

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. Rasheed Ogunlaru

My hair is not the shiniest of bobs My eyes are not the brightest in the room My figure will not get me modeling jobs My 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 thing That lifts my heart and makes my spirit soar I want to make the souls of people sing And quiet down the mean and bullying roar. To help the wounded girls replace the scar With the right to be exactly who they are. Nancy N. Rue

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, in the early days, and God loved me. That was something. And I loved animals and nature. And poetry. People were the problem. How do you love another person? How do you trust another person to love you? I had no idea. I thought that love was loss. Why is the measure of love loss?. Jeanette Winterson

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

When I am, you are not. Ljupka Cvetanova

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

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

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

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

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

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. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

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

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 the one who asks someone for a date. Or tell people what you need. Or what you want. . Stephen Chbosky

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. Edward Swift

My beliefs are the center of my being. Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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. Ana Claudia Antunes

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. B.J. Novak

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. Criss Jami

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

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

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

It was almost painful to be different. Shannon A. Thompson

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. Shannon L. Alder

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! Mandy Hale

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

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

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

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

... 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. Heidi Julavits

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

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 which life in its entirety would escape, except within himself). At the extreme limit of the "possible", it is true, there is nonsense . . but only of that which had a prior sense: this is fulguration, even "apotheosis" of nonsense. But I don't attain the extreme limit on my own and, in actual fact, I can't believe the extreme limit attained, for I never remain there. If I had to be the only one having attained it (assuming that I had .), it would be as thought it had not occurred. For if there subsisted a satisfaction, as small as I can imagine it to be, it would distance me as much from the extreme limit. I cannot for a moment cease to incite myself to attain the extreme limit, and cannot make a distinction between myself and those with whom I desire to communicate.~ George Bataille, "Inner Experience" pg. 42 . Georges Bataille

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. Unknown

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

Be strong enough to ignore the negative opinions of people, so that your positive spirit could illuminate your true unique colors. Unknown

Be as advertised. Johnnie Dent Jr.

Thank you. For being willing to talk. For not turning me in. For... being you.'' I'm pretty good at being me, ' I said. 'I've had all these years to practice-- I hardly ever get it wrong these days. Brandon Sanderson

HOME, which is the last floor for everyone. Sushil Singh

Go ahead and be ordinary. Eccentricity is extraordinary. JT Sanz

What is not true does not exist in this moment. Bert McCoy

The amazing ones are, those that don't know it! Anthony Liccione

I would much rather lose people than compromise my beliefs & values to please them. Trevor Driggers

God, no. I don’t want to tame her, I want to watch her. I just want to watch her be herself — it turns me on like nothing else. Dianna Hardy

The best thing to gift yourself is to be just YOURSELF, improving above the person that you were yesterday. Vikrmn

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! Mehmet Murat Ildan

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. Sue Fitzmaurice

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. John M Sheehan

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. Amen Muffler

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. Jay Woodman

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

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

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. Carrie Newcomer

You are what you love, not who loves you. Unknown

True beauty can only be found in the true Self. Ka Chinery

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. Dan Pearce

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

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