- “Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.” ― Tyler Kent White
- “You’re only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that’s the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won’t but you can’t define yourself by their opinions.” ― Susan Mallery, Sweet Trouble
- My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier. Anthony Hopkins
- If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self. Jordan Peterson
- If they could they would not allow you to think for yourself. @AmuseChimp
- “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring what others think.” ― Roy Bennett
- “Your Shadow is all of the things, ‘positive’ and ‘negative’, that you’ve denied about yourself and hidden beneath the surface of the mask you forgot that you’re wearing.” ― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World
- “At the end of the day, it’s your life. If you turn out good, the world celebrates you and with you (not minding how you achieved it). If bad, they abandon you (even if they gave you the advice that led you to doom). Just be you and follow your heart.” ― Omoakhuana Anthonia
- Only dead fish go with the flow. Derek Sivers
- “As individuals, we hardly have any control over the world. At best, what we can do is try controlling ourselves.” ― Dr Prem Jagyasi
- Stop caring about impact and just be the best version of you possible – then you’ll naturally have an impact. Naval Ravikant
- “After gaining spiritual depth, you will not try to show others something you are not. You will just be yourself.Without gaining spiritual depth, even if you are “Being Yourself”, you are just showing others that you are “Being Yourself.” Jo” ― Shunya
- Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness. Allen Ginsberg
- “Tiny GigglesSilly giggles of laughterI store upon a shelfI give some to otherI save some for myselfI am rich beyond all measureThough not with worldly wealthI store up these treasuresFor my heart and soulful health.” ― Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
- “Just be yourself, there is no one better.” ― Taylor Swift
- “Stop comparing yourself to others. Always strive to improve yourself to become better today than you were yesterday to serve those around you and the world.” ― Roy T. Bennett
- “Your Good Times will start the Minute you start Believing in Yourself!” ― Somya Kedia
- What the world craves is authenticity. Naval Ravikant
- He who tries to shine dims his own light. He who defines himself can’t know who he really is. Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching)
- You eliminate competition by being yourself. Dan Go
- The most important things in life are measured internally. You have an inner scoreboard. Playing to someone else’s scoreboard is easy. But when you look up at the end after winning, you’ll feel empty as you discover you won the wrong game. Play your own game. Shane Parrish
- Be nobody’s darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions of your life and wrap around you like a shawl, to parry stones, to keep you warm. Alice Walker
- I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine. Bruce Lee
- It has often been said that a reformation should begin with each man reforming himself. Søren Kierkegaard
- Be in the world, but don’t let the world be in you. Love, and yet don’t be lost in it. Relate, and yet be alone, utterly alone. Know perfectly well that all relationship is a game: play the game and play it as beautifully as possible and as skillfully as possible. Osho
- I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live. Socrates
- It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. E. E Cummings
- Conformity gets you nowhere. Neil Strauss
- “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”)” ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
- If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world. Elaine S. Dalton