Echoes

When you are content to be simply yourself, everybody will respect you.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself.

Become what you are.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

It would be better for me that the whole world should disagree with me than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

What does your conscience say? — You should become who you are.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Accept everything just the way it is.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.

It is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style — all mannerisms, tricks, adornments.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.