“When we’re young, we are desperate to fit in. When we’re older, we are desperate to stand out. Just be YOU and you’ll achieve both.”— Matthew Santoro, twitter.com
“I like you to be exactly the way that you are, because in all my experience, I have never known anyone like you.”— Nicholas Pagan, imdb.com
“My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.com
“Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.”— Tyler Kent White, amazon.com
“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me…And I don’t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.”— Louis L’Amour, amazon.com
“In a world that dictates standards on you it takes courage to be who you are in spite of. Go with your pace, our lives are not a race.”— Dr. Gia Sison, twitter.com
“Don't get dragged into the expectations of society. You don't need this and that.”— Rammy Bitong, twitter.com
“You can be just as goofy as you wish with him/her without hesitation, and they still find you adorable.”— Relationship Rules, relrules.com
“When you’re vulnerable, you can step out and walk this world as yourself, and not as somebody you pretend to be.”— Kyra del Rosario, thoughtcatalog.com
“Embrace your shyness! Cry in public! Have big big feelings! Be a mess!”— Unknown, tragicheroin.tumblr.com
“The most important thing you will ever do in your life is learn to embrace your unique, honest self. A boundless, infinitely populated universe and there is nothing else here quite like you. This is your power. All those things that make you strange and different are what make you irreplaceable.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“Do you like to draw with crayons? I'm not very good at it. But it doesn't matter. It's the fun of doing it that's important. Now, I would't have made that if I just thought about it. No matter how anybody says it is. It feels good to have made something. The best thing is that each person's would be…”— Mr. Rogers, youtube.com
“And you must know we do not really change over time; we are as flowers unfolding, we merely become more nearly ourselves.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“You want to meet someone who likes the same things you do, and who likes you most when you're most being yourself.”— B.J. Novak,, amazon.com
“Be yourself. Men want to see if you have the same type of humor and be reassured that you have enough shared interests to spark conversation on a date.”— Natalie Nanowski, ellecanada.com
“Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.”— Tina Fey, amazon.com
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted. Think of things in themselves.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com