Echoes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 exist as I am, that is enough.

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

Become what you are.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

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

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

If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich.

It would be better for me... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.