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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel "Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people. ~Tom Masson I am myself, and you are you. Blessed be the day that we accept that. ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), My Little Book of Life, 1912 I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. ~Shirley MacLaine Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ~Henri-Frédéric Amiel I no longer ask the approval of the throng. It is not essential. The violet cannot change its hue, though its heart break. ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), My Little Book of Life, 1912 Once I was the brown wren, but I tell you this brown coat no longer represents me, for I am come in screaming colors. ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), "Prayers of a Worldling: VII," A Soul's Faring, 1921 My soul in its prison-grey will come forth in the flush of colorful life. It will shed its grey cloak, like a pall. ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), "A Soul's Faring: XL," A Soul's Faring, 1921 I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything. ~George Gissing No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. ~John Morley Recluse, overheard: "It's one thing to accept who you are, and another thing to appear in public in such a condition." ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com There is just one life for each of us: our own. ~Euripides Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. ~Johann von Goethe Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ~Fanny Brice Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. ~Shakti Gawain Be your whole self with your whole soul. ~Terri Guillemets At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. ~Friedrich Nietzsche The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh Ride the energy of your own unique spirit. ~Gabrielle Roth I shall not mind what I am, if I have the courage to nail it to the bulletin board on the public square... I am not less than the mountain range that stretches away in its infinite line of being, that lifts up its head, confident and without apology. My life is not less than the stars that come forth in their place at night and shine. Whatever I do, or am, give me the courage to espouse it. ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), "A Soul's Faring: LXXXV," A Soul's Faring, 1921 Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. ~Steve Jobs Don't try so hard to impress. People fall in love with vulnerabilities more than strengths. ~Terri Guillemets Originality is... a by-product of sincerity. ~Marianne Moore The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity. ~Tony Robbins Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. ~Samuel Johnson If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. ~Author Unknown To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. ~Oscar Wilde Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true! ~Robert Browning, "Bishop Blougram's Apology," Men and Women Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. ~Allen Ginsberg, quoted in On Being a Writer edited by Bill Strickland, from an interview with Michael Schumacher Don't forget that your spirit-twinkle makes life's rainbow shine bright. ~Terri Guillemets All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. ~Johann von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774 When one is pretending the entire body revolts. ~Anaïs Nin I'd been so obsessed with getting my swag back but, then I realized the only people you really need to have swagger for are the people who don't care if you have any at all. ~Courtney Lilly, Lisa McQuillan, & Njeri Brown, `black·ish, "30 Something" (season 1, episode 17), original airdate 2015 March 25th, spoken by Dre Johnson about his 40th birthday party I breathe freedom. I drink it in long, deep draughts... It is the answer to the drought of me, to the parched years, to the earth of me that was bare and sear. It is the rain to the desert of me... ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), "Songs of Life-Freedom: I," A Soul's Faring, 1921 It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com We are betrayed by what is false within. ~George Meredith No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Minister in a Maze," The Scarlet Letter: A Romance, 1850 Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde My life's lilies shall unfold on their long stems, and its violets grasp their purple souls out of the soil. ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), "A Soul's Faring: LXXIV," A Soul's Faring, 1921 [a little altered Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind! ~Author unknown [First part is unknown author, circa 2000; second part is unknown author circa 1930s. See QuoteInvestigator.com for details. My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon. ~Kris Carr No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos. ~D.H. Lawrence Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. ~Eric Hoffer It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. ~Desiderius Erasmus Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves.... Learn to love yourself for who you are and open so the world can see you shine. ~James Poland All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ~Julius Charles Hare We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. ~André Berthiaume, Contretemps An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. ~Honoré de Balzac, Scènes de la vie Parisienne The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. ~Jim Morrison To tear away the verbiage and speak the one word that is truly myself! ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), My Little Book of Life, 1912 Be open. And then the truth follows. ~Gangaji What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. ~Carl Rogers He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. ~Samuel Johnson You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. ~Irene C. Kassorla You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~John Mason It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. ~Andre Gide There is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground round it into a swamp. ~Mark Rutherford (William Hale White), More Pages from a Journal, 1910 Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. ~François VI de la Rochefoucault Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human. ~Antonio Machado Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. ~Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954 Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~Kurt Vonnegut When you dance to your own rhythm, Life taps its toes to your beat. ~Terri Guillemets One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. ~Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi to Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf, 1882 The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that. ~Charles R. Brown Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya. ~Walter Kaufmann |
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