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.

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

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

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

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

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

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

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

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

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

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.

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

The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.

I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life.

At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose your self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in only one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

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

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

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

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

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