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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Category: Being Yourself
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He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Raymond Hull
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God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
Category: Being Yourself Author: William Shakespeare
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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, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Ralph Ellison
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
Category: Being Yourself Author: James Matthew Barrie
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Oscar Wilde
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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Judy Garland
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If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
Category: Being Yourself Author: David Carradine
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A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Paul Valey
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The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Boris Pasternak
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Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Samuel Johnson
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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Homer
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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Gabrielle Coco Chanel
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"Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Tom Masson
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I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Shirley MacLaine
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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Harvey Fierstein
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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.
Category: Being Yourself Author: George Gissing
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No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
Category: Being Yourself Author: John Morley
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There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Category: Being Yourself Author: Euripides
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