Quotes Being Yourself2017

1. Imperfection is beauty, madness is ge~nius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
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3. “ Be yourself; everyone else i~s already taken.”
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5. “ Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”
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7. “Faithless To be yourself ~in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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9. “ You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
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11. “ About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what~ you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.”
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13. “ Be yourself, don’t take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.”
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15. “ You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”
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17. “ You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?”
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19. “ Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and t~his is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, ho~w unorthodox, one’s particular life path might appear to one’s self or others at any given moment.”
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21. “ I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”
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23. “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
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25. “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
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27. “ 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.”
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29. “ God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
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31. “ The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
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35. “Where’s your will to be weird?”
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37. “ Most people are other people. Their th~oughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
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39. “ If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”
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41. “ I find the best way to love someon~e is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.”
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43. “ There is nothing more~ awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.”
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45. “ I will not hide my tast~es or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints.”
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47. “ Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
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49. “ Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
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51. “ If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?”
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53. “They can’t scare me, if I scare them first.”
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55. “ Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.”
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57. “ our time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”8
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59. “ An unfulfilled vocation drains the ~color from a man’s entire existence.”
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61. “ When I was a child my mother said t~o me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
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63. “ You are not a bad person because you are gay. ~You are you because you are you and you were meant to be you so be you proudly.”
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65. “ Don’t let others box you into their idea of what they think ~you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you ~and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are.”
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67. “ If you want to be yourself, sometimes you can’t compare the economic benefit with art.”
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69. “ To be one, to be united is a g~reat thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.”
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71. “ Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.”
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73. “ Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
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75. “ If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”
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77. “ The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.”
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79. “ At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a un~ique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chan~ce will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”
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81. “ We all wear masks, and the time ~comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”
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83. “ One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”
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85. “ It is better to be hated for what~ you are than to be loved for something you are not.”
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87. “ Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in..”
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89. “Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own.”
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91. “ I feel that the simplicity of life ~is just being yourself.”
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93. “ How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we’re not? Even be~tter, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?”
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95. “ Don’t dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.