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For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman as a human being and even female-was when I was singing.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it with whole heart and single mind.

I look at ordinary people in their suits them with no scars and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. ... They talk like me like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!

Willie Pastrano

I have the feeling when I write poetry that I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. You don't think about whether you're going to get money or fame you just do it.

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size or it is not the door that providence means for him.

Henry Ward Beecher

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

There are as many ways to live and grow as there are people. Our own ways are the only ways that should matter to us.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Erasmus

Follow what you love! Don't deign to ask what "they" are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests which change but what you are and what you love which will and should not change.

Georgie Anne Geyer

All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not to do something they cannot do.

Dress to please yourself.... Forget you are what you wear.... Wear what you are.

Elizabeth Hawkes

Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery!

If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham in which our selves are determined by the will of others in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us.

Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means and so make for themselves different modes of life.

Aristotle

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.

Be not imitator freshly act thy part Through this world be thou an independent ranger Better is the faith that springeth from thy heart Than a better faith belonging to a stranger.

Persian Proverb

There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely.

Ugo Betti

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

J. C. F. von Schiller

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.

Charles R. Brown

The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities.

Our concern must be to live while we're alive ... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

We are betrayed by what is false within.

George Meredith

If I trim myself to suit others I will soon whittle myself away.

Anonymous

This above all: to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

In the world to come they will not ask me "Why were you not Moses?" They will ask me "Why were you not Zusya?"

Zusya of Hanipoli

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Robertson Davies

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself.

José Ortega y Gasset

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

Any path is only a path and there is no affront to oneself or to others in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

Carlos Castañeda

It is possible to be different and still be all right.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Let me listen to me and not to them.

She lacks confidence she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Lillian Hellman

The crow that mimics a cormorant gets drowned.

Japanese Proverb

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?

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.

Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality it cannot be transferred. No two persons if sincere can have the same philosophy.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Choose always the way that seems the best however rough it may be custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

I think God rarely gives to one man or one set of men more than one great moral victory to win.

Truth has beauty power and necessity.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self

Michel de Montaigne

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house but you cannot build the house without them.

Constance Fenimore Woolson

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to keep your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

Sir Richard Burton

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

The moment that any life however good stifles you you may be sure it isn't your real life.

Arthur Christopher Benson

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

Sophocles

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.

Charles Caleb Colton

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