733 Quotes About Being-yourself

How much harder is it to walk with your feet bound? Or to talk with a hand over your mouth?' she lectured. 'Why do you waste all of your strength fighting your true nature?

That was the beginning of a bad time. Where I was not myself. Actually, no. I don’t like putting it that way — you’re never not yourself. You’re always you. It’s just, sometimes, who you are… who you are is a shitty person.

I feel like we meet people in life and want so much for them to like us that we suck in our stomachs and pretend we don’t fart and tell them a bunch of things we think they want to know. If it works they fall for the person we want to be, and not for the person we are.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Being yourself is more important than being different.

I did not want to be like anyone else. I wanted to remain in my own skin, although it was often so constrictive... I had to find a bridge to reach people, I must learn to live with them without always feeling at a disadvantage.

People think I’m controversial for the answers I give to silly questions in interviews, but if somebody asks me what I think about Live 8 or Robbie Williams or Madonna, I’m not thinking about insulting those people; I say what I genuinely feel is in my heart. My conscience is clean, d’you know what I mean? Y’know, I’m true to myself — fuck everybody else.

Did he know that she was so dissatisfied with herself that she was always pretending to be different? Probably he did, and despised her for it. More than anyone she knew, Joe Willard was always, fearlessly, himself.

And I’m sure everyone else would too if you only allowed them to see more of who you really are, rather than pretending to be someone you’re not!