“It’s not embarrassing to be a virgin. It’s simply one’s state of being.”— Ben Edlund, Joss Whedon, Inara Serra, Morena Baccarin, imdb.com
“True courage is about being honest with yourself. Especially when it’s difficult.”— Kate Erickson, Mr. Robot, Christian Slater, imdb.com
“Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself to seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament.”— Jim Henson, amazon.com
“Bobby, it don't matter how you stand; it matter where you end up!”— Roberto Clemente, en.wikiquote.org
“Past twenty, not yet thirty In between, right there When I’m not a kid or an adult When I’m just me I shine the brightest So don’t get scared when darkness comes”— IU, G-Dragon, open.spotify.com
“And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that’s ok with them.”— Alain de Botton, twitter.com
“The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.”— Madeleine Albright, goodreads.com
“She warned me about how moody she is; she thought I’d easily leave if she showed me all her day faces, but she didn’t know how much I love the moon and all its phases.”— Maram Rimawi, wnq-writers.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
“I need very badly to be just me. I can’t live up to your romantic ideal of me.”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“I don’t have to hide or be somebody I’m not. I don’t have to compromise. I can just be myself.”— Cory Monteith, amazon.com
“The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.”— Leo Buscaglia, amazon.com
“Perhaps the most exhausting part of the charade was time spent watching myself through the lens of others; contorting myself into something more palatable for the next person; shouldering guilt and expectations that weren’t mine to bear; and swallowing discomfort when I wanted to bellow, 'I’m not ok…”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.”— Douglas Coupland, amazon.com
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”— Thich Nhat Hanh, goodreads.com
“If you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much an extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com