Being Myself Quotes - Page 6

• I'm me. I'm just out there being myself. I like having fun. But at the same time, I bring everybody together. So I'm really -- or I try to be -- like the glue of the team.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Fun, Team, Together

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• I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly invisible suit that sometimes oppresses me, is the external world’s tremendous and remarkable clarity, the sun that sees everyone, the moon that splotches the still earth with shadows, the wide expanses that end in the sea, the blackly solid trees whose tops greenly wave, the steady peace of ponds on farms, the terraced slopes with their paths overgrown by grape-vines.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Moon, Objectivity, Sea

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• Sometimes when I'm brushing my teeth, I'll look at the mirror and I swear my reflection seems kind of disappointed. I realized a couple of years ago that not only am I not super-skilled at anything, I'm not even particularly good at being myself.

  Charles Yu

  Couple, Reflection, Mirrors

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.10, Vintage

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• I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.

  Alice James

  Writing, Thinking, Reflection

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• I'm just saying I'm being myself, and people understand that.

  Dennis Rodman

  People, Just Saying

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• My mother taught me to focus on being myself and not to worry what other people think about you. I know that as long as I'm a good person I'll stay on the right path. From my dad I learned that when someone tells you “No” it's only the beginning of a conversation. They both have always let me know that I can do anything I want to do as long as I don't give up. They are the most important role models in my life because they are exactly who I want to be when I grow up. They are supportive and understanding and I try every day to remember what they've taught me.

  Lauren Conrad

  Mother, Giving Up, Growing Up

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• When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Self, Degrees, Individualism

  GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1967). “THE SERMONS AND DEVOTIONAL WRITINGS OF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS”

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• I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my teenage years. Basically I'm just being myself.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Teenage, School, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.

  Mac DeMarco

  Crazy, Guy, Intellectual

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them---or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for "I" was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were "they") being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair.

  Aldous Huxley

  Self, Legs, Example

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• I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman it amazes me still.

  Jenni Rivera

  Artist, People, Just Being

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• In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.

  Thomas Merton

  Being Yourself, Age, Littles

  Thomas Merton (1974). “A Thomas Merton Reader”, Image

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• The more conscious of God's presence the more I feel like being myself, the less conscious of His presence, the more I feel I need to prove myself.

  R. T. Kendall

  God, Being Yourself, Religious

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• If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

  Candace Bushnell

  Being Yourself, Sacrifice, Men

  "Q&A with The Carrie Diaries author Candace Bushnell". Teen Vouge Interview, www.teenvogue.com. February 7, 2010.

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• I’m just being myself. There is not an ounce of me that believes any of that crap that they say. We can’t be feminine and be feminists and be successful? I want to be a f-king feminist and wear a f-king Peter Pan collar. So f-king what?

  Zooey Deschanel

  Kings, Believe, Successful

  "5 of Our Favorite Things Zooey Deschanel (Glamour's February Cover Star!) Shared With Us". www.glamour.com. January 2, 2013.

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• I detach myself from preconceived outcomes and trust that all is well. Being myself allows the wholeness of my unique magnificience to draw me in those directions most beneficial to me and to all others. This is really the only thing I have to do. And within that framework, everything that is truly mine comes into my life effortlessly, in the most magical and unexpected ways imaginable, demonstrating every day the power and love of who I truly am.

  Anita Moorjani

  Unique, And Love, Outcomes

  FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from Apr 24, 2014

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• I don't have to be anything at all. I don't even have to be myself, because there is no such thing as not being myself. I am inescapably myself.

  Mooji

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• I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nasty, Brave New World Happiness

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• I'm an optimist.
  I've always believed the future is going to be better than the past.
  And I also believe I have a role in that.
  The great thing about human beings, myself in particular, is that I can change.
  I can do better.
  If you can get up every day, stay optimistic, and believe the future is better than the past, those few things get you through a lot of tough times.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John R. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 1, 2005.

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• You think you're in a place where you're all 'I'm thrilled to be gay, I have no issues about being gay anymore, I don't feel shame about being gay,' but you actually do. You're just not fully aware of it. I think I still felt scared about people knowing. I felt awkward around gay people; I felt guilty for not being myself.

  Ellen Page

  Gay, Thinking, Knowing

  "Ellen Page Discusses Coming Out As Gay And That Homophobic Pastor’s Note" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2014.

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