Being Yourself Quotes - Page 39

• You can always care [about what others think]. You probably always will care. But don't let it dictate your choices and what you want and what you want to accomplish and who you want to be. Don't let anyone get in the way of that. That's being yourself.

  Jenna Marbles

  Thinking, Choices, Care

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• Don't ever, ever, ever give up, because you're here for a reason, even if it's just to laugh at cats on the internet.

  Jenna Marbles

  Giving Up, Cat, Laughing

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• CONFIDENCE BOOSTER: Take pride in the things that make you stand out. Realize that you're better served by being authentic to yourself than by seeking out short-term praise from someone else.

  Robin Meade

  Pride, Realizing, Praise

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• It's better to be talked about than to be forgotten. (In other words, if you are the subject of gossip or speculation, enjoy it! Don't let someone else's negative energy control you!).

  Robin Meade

  Gossip, Energy, Negative

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• One possible sign of low self-esteem is suppressing parts of yourself so you can fill someone else's expectations of what you should be. You try to fill someone else's (or your own) prescription of perfection, instead of being yourself and embracing your originality.

  Robin Meade

  Self Esteem, Expectations, Perfection

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• [N]ever stop being yourself.

  Ruth Minsky Sender

  Ruth Minsky Sender (2016). “The Cage”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Only one thing I expect from all of you: to be yourself, to discover your inner beauty, your purity of consciousness, your hidden splendor - and spread it to as many people as possible. People are miserable. Help them to laugh a little, to sing a little, to dance a little.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Laughing, People

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• Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.

  Gertrude Stein

  Real, Coffee, Thinking

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• Have confidence in prayer. It is the unfailing power which God has given us. By means of it you will obtain the salvation of the dear souls whom God has given you and all your loved ones." Ask and you shall receive," Our Lord said. Be yourself with the good Lord.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Prayer, Mean, Soul

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• In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.

  George Robinson

  Perfect, Effort, Trying

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• Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.'

  George Robinson

  Mistake, Please

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• Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.

  George Robinson

  Suffering, Taught, Failing

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• When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships.

  George Robinson

  Giving Up, Rejection, Too Much

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• Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  Maggie Kuhn, Christina Long, Laura Quinn (1991). “No stone unturned: the life and times of Maggie Kuhn”

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• When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Inspirational, Hard Times, Empowering

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• Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Truth, Honesty, Ignorance

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• It says right here you've got to be saved to go to heaven. But the way I see it, you've only got to be yourself to go to hell.

  Marilyn Manson

  Religious, Heaven, Way

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• I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey, 'man, just be yourself.'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Thanksgiving, Fun, Hate

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  If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then life itself loses its meaning.

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, Expression, Important

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.214, Univ of California Press

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• There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Business, Practice, Imagining Yourself

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• Live your life so that if someone says 'Be yourself' it's good advice.

  Robert Orben

  Motivational, Psychics, Advice

  Robert Orben (2012). “2400 Jokes to Brighten Your Speeches”, p.309, Doubleday

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• The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Matter, Asking Yourself Questions, Questioning

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.200, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

  Andrej Pejic

  Fashion, Different, Form

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• Courage is when you dare to be yourself, in whatever ways you want to be - to not be afraid, to just do it.

  Loung Ung

  Want, Way, Aging

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• Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Honesty, Vulnerable, Authenticity

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