842 Quotes About Be-yourself

I'm willing to lose anything that requires me to hide any part of myself.

I'm a grown-ass woman now and I do what the fuck I want. I mean this with deep respect and love – and with the desire that you, too, will do what the fuck you want with your own singular precious life.

My goal is not to remain the same but to live in such a way that each day, year, moment, relationship, conversation, and crisis is the material I use to become a truer, more beautiful version of myself.

When I quit, I learned that my anger never meant that there was something wrong with me. It meant that there was something wrong. Out there.

I'll abandon everyone else's expectations of me before I abandon myself.

This way of life requires living in integrity: ensuring that my inner self and my outer self are integrated. Integrity means having only one self. Dividing into two selves – the shown self and the hidden self – that is brokeness, so I do whatever it takes to stay whole. I do not adjust myself to please the world. I am myself whereever I am, and let the world adjust.

This way of life requires living in integrity: ensuring that my inner self and my outer self are integrated. Integrity means having only one self. Dividing into two selves – the shown self and the hidden self – that is brokeness, so I do whatever it takes to stay whole. I do not adjust myself to please the world. I am myself wherever I am, and let the world adjust.

Every time you pretend to be less than you are, you steal permission from other women to fully exist.

I will not stay, not ever again – in a room or conversation or relationship or institution that requires me to abandon myself.