quotes - Be yourself

Be Yourself... You are the only you that exists.

“Who we are never changes.  
Who we think we are does.”  ~ Mary Almanac 


“Feet on ground 
heart in hand 
facing forward
be yourself.”  ~ Jan Arden


"Going home means getting comfortable being who you are and who your soul really wants to be.  There is no strain with that.  The strain and tension come when we're not being who our soul wants to be and we're someplace where our soul doesn't feel at home." ~ Melody Beattie 


"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~ Henri Bergson 


"The easiest thing in the world to be is you.  The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be.  Don't let them put you in that position." ~ Leo Buscaglia 


"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”  ~ Joseph Campbell 


"Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do."  ~ William Channing


"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.  Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." ~ Tao Te Ching 


"Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.  Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it than a picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.  You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today." ~ Guy Finley 


"At the center of your being you have the answer.  You know who you are and you know what you want." ~ Lao-tzu


"Find your true path.  It's so easy to become someone we don't want to be, without even realizing it's happening.  We are created by the choices we make every day.  And if we take action in order to please some authority figure, we'll suddenly wake up down the road and say, 'This isn't me.  I never wanted to be this person.'" ~ Bernie Siegel, MD