Echoes

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

I exist as I am, that is enough.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Become what you are.

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

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.

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

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

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

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

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

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

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

My life is my message.

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

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.

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.

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.