Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own. Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead. If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. “The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh If you want to be yourself, sometimes you can’t compare the economic benefit with art. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Marilyn Monroeĭon’t let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. Gianni VersaceĪn unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live. Lady Gagaįind out who you are and do it on purpose. They can’t scare me if I scare them first. If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else? RuPaul “Follow your own star!” – Dante Alighieri Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints. There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality. I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Where’s your will to be weird? Jim Morrison But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting. “Just be yourself, there is no one better.” – Taylor Swift Gerard Wayīe who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. Be Yourself Quotesīe yourself, don’t take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.
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Just as they rose to the challenge, you too can learn how to be yourself. It may seem hard, but great people throughout history who have struggled to find their identities, too. No lifetime, no matter how successful, will be truly rewarding or happy if you cannot learn to love yourself and be yourself. How often do you wake up in the morning with one idea in mind for what you want to accomplish, only to find yourself doing something else because of social pressures or personal anxieties? How many times each day do you mean to say one thing, and say another instead, because you’re worried about what others might think? These quotes about being yourself will help you determine your own identity and live the life you want for yourself. If make a purchase through these links, we receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Some of the links in this post may be affiliate links.