“How many cares one loses when one decides not
to be something but to be someone.”
-Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel
“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
“Imitation is suicide.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do your own thing on your own terms and get
what you came here for.”
-Oliver James
“Flatter yourself critically.”
-Willis Goth Regier
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for
you’ll be criticized anyway.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the
majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with
their dirty feet.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“Better to write for yourself and have no public,
than to write for the public and have no self.”
-Cyril Connolly
“We must not allow other people’s limited
perceptions to define us.”
-Virginia Satir
“Don’t look for society to give you permission to
be yourself.”
-Steve Maraboli
“If things go wrong, don’t go with them.”
-Roger Babson
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who
you are.”
-Kurt Cobain
“Tension is who you think you should be.
Relaxation is who you are.”
-Chinese Proverb
“Where’s your will to be weird?”
-Jim Morrison
“Some people say you are going the wrong way,
when it’s simply a way of your own.”
-Angelina Jolie
“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you
suck.”
-Joss Whedon
“Do what you can, with what you have, where
you are.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
-Oscar Wilde
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray
of my heart. I am. I am. I am.”
-Sylvia Plath
“There came a time when the risk to remain tight
in the bud was more painful than the risk it took
to blossom.”
-Anaïs Nin
“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
-Socrates
“If you seek authenticity for authenticity’s sake
you are no longer authentic.”
-Jean Paul Sartre
“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”
-David Carradine
“When one is pretending the entire body revolts.”
-Anaïs Nin
“Be there for others, but never leave yourself
behind.”
-Dodinsky
“Do what you must,
And your friends will adjust.”
-Robert Brault
“Just let awareness have its way with you
completely.”
-Scott Morrison
“We must be our own before we can be
another’s.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
-William Shakespeare