Being Yourself Quotes - Page 9

• Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.

  Andrew Wilkow

  Relationship, Freedom, Being Free

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• You don’t need to be a completely complete human right now … That’s what makes you human.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

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• You are a 64-track recording - the tracks are always there, they're always with you. Sometimes the harsh tracks are cranked up and the rest are rolled down to zero. Other times the sweet tracks are high and the darkness is low. But it's all you.

  RZA

  Life, Music, Sweet

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.75, Penguin

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• I think we each have a personal sweet spot as well. It's the state of mind in which we experience the most joy and satisfaction in being ourselves. And from that place of pleasure and joy in being ourselves, energy arises to flow out into our day bringing with it the depth and resonance of our own beingness, bringing with it blessing.

  David Spangler

  Positive, Sweet, Blessing

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• I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Thinking, Being Real, Trying

  Song: Precious, Album: Esperanza, 2008

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• Every child has the capacity to be everything.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspirational, Children, Believe In Yourself

  Doris Lessing (1979). “Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 : Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days”

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• Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass.

  Terry Crews

  Love, Badass, American Football

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 28, 2012.

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• There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Feelings, Contentment

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• If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.

  Edward Wilmot Blyden

  Character, Giving, Personality

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• What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person.

  Katherine Moennig

  Thinking, Two, People

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• Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness.

  Peter Wolf

  Inspirational, People, Being Different

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• Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Women, Soul

  Walt Whitman (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.68, Oxford University Press

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• There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

  Richard Rohr

  Who I Am, Enough, Clergymen

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• I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.

  Jean Rhys

  Life, I Dont Care, Knowing

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• We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "A Return to Love" by Marianne Williamson, (p. 191), March 15, 1996.

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  A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Freedom, Being Alone

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.36, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

  Louis L'Amour

  Inspirational, People, I Am Who I Am

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• You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Spiritual, New Beginnings

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Inspirational, Time, Long

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.100, Bantam

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• No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Change, Thinking, Personality

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• It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

  Sarah Dessen

  Happiness, Happy, Divorce

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.204, Penguin

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  Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Letting Go

  "Turning On The Light At Times Of Loss" by Anne Naylor, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2010.

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• Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of happiness without needing nice things to happen on the outside. Rather, you find happiness by being who you really are. This isn't mystical. Young children are happy being who they are. The trick is to regain such a state when you are grown and have seen the light and dark sides of life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Deepak Chopra (2012). “Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges”, p.130, Harmony

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• Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Teenage, Comedian, Finding Yourself

  "Gay suicide sparks calls for tougher privcacy laws in the US". "AM" on ABC Radio, www.abc.net.au. October 2, 2010.

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