Echoes

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

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

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

Become what you are.

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

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

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

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

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

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.

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

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

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

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

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

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.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

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

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

I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Comparison is the thief of joy.