“We are each so deliciously complex and messy; what better way to pay homage to these multiplicities than to feel, to express, and to carve out space to navigate as our purest self?”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love...”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“I may turn out an intellectual, but I’ll never write anything but mediocre poetry.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“There is no need of any competition with anybody. You are yourself, and as you are, you are perfectly good. Accept yourself.”— Osho, amazon.com
“There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.”— Steve Maraboli, 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
“You must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you’ll catch up.”— Natsuki Takaya, amazon.com
“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“When I accept myself I am free from the burden of needing you to accept me.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“There is no need of any competition with anybody. You are yourself, and as you are, you are perfectly good. Accept yourself.”— Osho, osho.com
“All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, an…”— Ralph Ellison, amazon.com
“I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is…unapologetically who they are.”— Don Cheadle, wnq-writers.com
“You’re going to spend more time with yourself than with anyone else in your life. You want to spend that whole time fighting who you are?”— Alex Sanchez, amazon.com
“There is no need of any competition with anybody. You are yourself, and as you are, you are perfectly good. Accept yourself.”— Osho, oshoworld.com
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”— Edwin M. McMahon, Peter A. Campbell, amazon.com