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As long as one asserts oneself and is true to oneself.
Sep 18, 2025
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
When one is true to oneself, when one is authentic, one becomes true to the evolutionary thrust for self-optimization that exists within oneself and within the universe. And that evolutionary thrust is a continuous unfolding process.
I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.
To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.
Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.
Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.
Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
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.
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.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
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.
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.
Never apologize for showing feeling. 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.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
When one is pretending the entire body revolts.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
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