Be Yourself! [Quotes]

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.  ~Oscar Wilde


All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.  ~Johann von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774


When one is pretending the entire body revolts.  ~Anais Nin


It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


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, The Scarlet Letter


Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.  Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.  ~Oscar Wilde


Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.  ~Dr. Seuss


My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon.  ~Kris Carr


No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.  ~D.H. Lawrence


Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.  ~Eric Hoffer


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


Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves.... Learn to love yourself for who you are and open so the world can see you shine.  ~James Poland


All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


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, Contretemps


An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.  ~Honoré de Balzac, "Scnes de la vie Parisienne," La Maison Nucingen, 1838


He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"


There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.  ~Samuel Johnson
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You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny.  The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.  ~Irene C. Kassorla


Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche


You were born an original.  Don't die a copy.  ~John Mason


It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.  ~Andre Gide