Be yourself!
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself. Lao Tse
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. ~John Morley
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. ~Johann von Goethe
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ~Fanny Brice
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. ~Shakti Gawain
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvellously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
We are betrayed by what is false within. ~George Meredith
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ~Julius Charles Hare
We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. ~André Berthiaume,
You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~John Mason
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~Kurt Vonnegut
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya. ~Walter Kaufmann
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. ~Sylvia Plath
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Take the time to come home to yourself every day. ~Robin Casarjean
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself. Lao Tse
