be yourself Quotes

“I can’t seem to stay out of my own way.”

“Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.”

“If you stop trying to make yourself more than you are, out of fear that you are less than you are, whoever you really are will be a lot lighter and happier and easier to live with, too.”

“I wanted what everyone wants. To be me, full-time.”

“Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.”

“In order to have what you really want, you must first be who you really are.”

“Tess,” I say. “I’m going to head down to the water.I’ll be back in a minute.” “You sure you can make it by yourself?” she asks. “I’ll be fine.” I smile. “If you see me floating unconscious out to sea, though-by all means, come and get me.”

“Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.”

“Channel your own authenticity, be the best damn version of yourself possible, and forget about the rest.”

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“What you think you are is a belief to be undone.”

“So instead of trying to fit a mold- size, color, boyfriend or career path- find out who you are and what is your true voice in this world. There is no point in trying to become something you are not. There is a reason for you being who you are, and it is your job to find out what that is, because no one, and I mean no one on the planet, can be a better version of you than you can.. And if they don’t like what they see, they can simply look away.”

“Why is life so difficult? Why can’t we just be ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?”

“Fear is a stranger to the ways of love. Identify with fear, and you will be a stranger to yourself.”

“Always be honest about the way someone makes you feel about yourself.”

“She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, when she was the product of her parents. What she was now was what she herself had decided to become.”

“Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.”

“Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.”

“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”

“So okay― there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You’ve blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.”

“It’s imaging things that you wish you couldn’t think up all by yourself.”

“Maybe it was time to just... by myself.”

“If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don’t give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it.”