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One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
Sep 17, 2025
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard
It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
Being willing is not enough. We must do.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.
You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
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.
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
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.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
About all you can do in life is be who you are.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Just be yourself, there is no one better.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...
When one is pretending the entire body revolts.
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.