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One
does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on
the
contrary by pursuing something else and learning through
discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.
-May
Sarton
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Be
yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are,
what you believe, shine through every sentence
you write, every piece you finish.
-John
Jakes
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When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If
you
become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become
a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead I
became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
-Pablo Picasso
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Josh
Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know
oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings
have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices
for running away from themselves, and the modern world
is particularly rich in such stratagems.
-John W.
Gardner
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You
have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike
any that has ever been created, or ever will be. If you
go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it
will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.
-Gordon
MacKenzie
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There
are many who are living far below their possibilities
because they are continually handing over their individualities
to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
-Ralph
Waldo Trine
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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.
-e.e. cummings
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| I
have a basic philosophy that I've tried to follow during
my coaching career. Whether you're winning or losing,
it's important to always be yourself. You can't change
because of the circumstances around you.
-Cotton
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think she is? Now I have the courage to stand and say,
This is who I am. -Oprah
Winfrey |
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Accept everything about yourself--I mean
everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the
end--no apologies, no regrets.
-Clark Moustakas
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What
another would have
done as well as you, do not
do it. What another would
have said as well as you,
do not say it;
what another
would have written as well,
do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but
in yourself--and
thus make yourself
indispensable. -Andre
Gide
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you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.
-Barbara Cook |
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you teach people to keep their eyes upon what others think of
them,
unthinkingly to lead the lives and hold the principles of the
majority
of their contemporaries, you must discredit in their own eyes
the
authoritative voices of their own souls. They may be
docile citizens;
they will never be men and women. It is ours, on the other
hand,
to disregard this babble and chattering of other people better
and
worse than we are, and to walk straight before us by what light
we have. They may be right; but so, before heaven, are we. They may
know;
but we know also, and by that knowledge we must stand or fall.
There is such a thing as loyalty to one's own better self; and
from those
who have not that, God help me, how am I to look for loyalty to
others? -Robert
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Defining myself, as opposed to being
defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges
I face. -Carol Mosely-Braun
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not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful
appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a
Pekinese? -Edith Sitwell |
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Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of
humans. We have learned to live our life trying to satisfy other people's demands.
We have learned
to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of
not being
accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.
-Don Miguel Ruiz
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| To be what we are, and to become what we
are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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you put something wonderful
in the world that was not there before.
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There
is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.
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