Being Yourself Quotes - Page 26

• When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself; you become what others force you to be. You lose your wisdom and your soul.

  Jean Rhys

  Children, Soul, Force

  Jean Rhys (1985). “Tales of the wide Caribbean”, Heinemann Educational Publishers

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• Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Badass, Love Yourself

  "We Didn't Come to Saturday Night Live To Be Cute" by Tina Fey, www.slate.com. July 25, 2011.

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• ...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love

  Jack Gantos

  Self Love, Parent, Your Boyfriend

  Jack Gantos (2011). “Dead End in Norvelt”, p.310, Macmillan

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• Keep on being yourself.

  Hugh Laurie

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• Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Nice

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 25, 2009

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• Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.

  Rajneesh

  Ideas, Perception, Spirituality

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• As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.

  Robert Bly

  Taken, Might, Wells

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• Be yourself, chase your dreams, and just never say never. That's the best advice I could ever give someone.

  Taylor Swift

  Dream, Giving, Advice

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• Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Inspirational, Life, Wish

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• Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Limits

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• Be yourself, until you bleed.

  Mike Carey

  "Lucifer". Comic book series by Mike Carey (Issue 72: Evensong, Part 2), 1999-2006.

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  There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

  Anton Chekhov

  Depressing, Insulting, Awful

  "The Teacher of Literature". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1894.

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• To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a "Natural Man".

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Blessed, Men, Giving

  U. G. Krishnamurti, Rodney Arms (2002). “The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti”, p.57, Sentient Publications

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• If there is anything you can do, it may just be to smile for them. Because when you smile, the world seems just a little kinder. For you to just be yourself is a very important thing, I think.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Thinking, Important, World

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• You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Perception, Looks

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2001). “Talks with American Students”, p.68, Shambhala Publications

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• When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?

  Paulo Coelho

  Desire, Energy, Moments

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• Remember," he called. "Just be yourself, and everyone will love you!" Nick rolled his eyes and made a rude gesture, and Alan drove the car away laughing.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Love You, Eye, Laughing

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone has their own story and that’s something I hope for everyone to learn at a young enough age. Just because something is right for someone else doesn’t make it right for you. It’s cooler to be yourself.

  Hayley Williams

  Age, Stories, Enough

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• Be yourself,its the best thing you can be.

  Selena Gomez

  Best Things

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• However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

  Aidan Chambers

  Giving, Should

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• I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Dark, Night, Easier

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.441, Penguin

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• You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer.

  David Morrell

  Writing, Who I Am, Voice

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• Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Integrity, Real, Mean

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.190, New World Library

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• Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.

  Paul Zindel

  Cutting, Hair, Looks

  Paul Zindel (2000). “Pigman with Related Reading”

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• Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?

  Clarice Lispector

  Strange

  Clarice Lispector, Johnny Lorenz, Benjamin Moser (2012). “A Breath of Life”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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