“It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.”— Thomas Bernhard, amazon.com
“You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.”— Danielle LaPorte, daniellelaporte.com
“You were all things soft: a feather, a candle a kiss on a tired cheek. But you were not weak. You took the world and made all yours. And yes, you became.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“And so you became. Your soul felt lighter, shifting with the weight of change. You stopped trying to fit and started to just be. Imperfect and flawed, tough and soft, tender and strong.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.”— Leo Buscaglia, amazon.com
“No one has any idea what it means to 'be yourself.' Like, whose self would I otherwise be being?”— John Green, youtube.com
“You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.”— Danielle LaPorte, daniellelaporte.com
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, medium.com
“A weird thing about working on your mental health is that it’s very stressful to do the work required in order to work on your mental health!!!”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“Once it was proposed to me that it was all right to be like I am, I finally quit apologizing for it.”— Carrie Fisher, rollingstone.com
“The strength to be who you are without fear of rejection from others was something I respected, if only because it was something I aspired to myself.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“That's being yourself. Chasing wherever inspiration goes, even if it's radically different from the thing that people know you as.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, gq.com
“Hey, we're all just trying to get by. We're all doing life as best we can and that's all you can do is try to be the best version of yourself.”— Grace Helbig, youtube.com
“You don't like my style, that's fine; but I'm not going to change who I am. So you're going to have to deal with, and respect it.”— Jessica Day, netflix.com
“I think the number one thing about Instagram is that people think there’s some sort of secret or magic to it and all of it is about being authentic and being yourself and respond to your followers.”— Eva Chen, independent.co.uk
“Be who you are and don't allow anyone to affect the confidence you have in your individuality.”— Demi Lovato, amazon.com
“Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be.”— Shonda Rhimes, amazon.com