Just Saying: Quotations On Being Yourself

You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.
— John Mason

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
— Dr. Seuss

Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
— Shakti Gawain

We are so accustomed to disguising ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
— François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.
— André Berthiaume, Contretemps

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
— Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
— David Carradine

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
—  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Originality is… a by-product of sincerity.
— Marianne Moore

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
— Samuel Johnson

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
— Johann von Goethe

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
— Andre Gide

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.
— Author Unknown

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
— Kurt Vonnegut

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.
— Robert Brault

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.
— Boris Pasternak

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
— e.e. cummings

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