Be You Quotes - Page 14

• Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey - no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll pr a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you.

  Arnold Arre

  Cat, Kids, Black And White

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• When I get involved, I give it my heart,
  I mean my mind, my soul, my body: I mean every part.
  But if it doesn't work out, yo, it just doesn't.
  It wasn't meant to be, you know, it just wasn't.

  MC Lyte

  Rap, Mean, Heart

  Song: Paper Thin, Album: Lyte as a Rock

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• Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true.
  And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.

  Phife Dawg

  Being Yourself, Lying, Rap

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• You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know.

  Mary Wells Lawrence

  Motivational, Being Yourself, Travel

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• To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

  Ayn Rand

  Writing, Creative, Firsts

  Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.102, Penguin

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• It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

  Giordano Bruno

  Fear, May, Judgment

  "Giordano Bruno: His Life and Thought". Book by Dorothea Waley Singer, 1950.

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• What you are to be, you are now becoming.

  Carl Rogers

  Growth, Becoming

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• Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an artist, the truth is in the details. Of course the devil's there, too-everyone says so-but maybe truth and the devil are words for the same thing. It could be you know.

  Stephen King

  Truth, Artist, Style

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatsoever you can be you are. There is no goal. And we are not going anywhere. We are simply celebrating here. Existence is not a journey, it is a celebration. Think of it as a celebration, as a delight, as a joy! Don't turn it into a suffering, don't turn it into a duty, a work. Let it be play.

  Rajneesh

  Journey, Thinking, Play

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• We'll dive into the earth together. And if one day a wild flower finds water and springs up from that piece of earth, its stem will have two blooms for sure: one will be you, the other me.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Spring, Flower, Two

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• It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Nice, Important, Looks

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• To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster.

  Andy Stanley

  Self, Leader, Coaching

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• Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different.

  Brian Johnson

  Motivational, Dream, Fun

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• The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Crazy, Phones, Talking

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• And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not.

  Penelope Lively

  Lying, Years, Forever

  Penelope Lively (2007). “Consequences”, p.39, Penguin

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• Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

  David O. Russell

  Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.

  William H. Gass

  Book, Writing, Would Be

  William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I can be you hero baby.
  I can kiss away the pain.
  I will stand by you forever.
  You can take my breath away

  Enrique Iglesias

  Baby, Pain, Hero

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• You have a destiny to fulfill, something greater than you've ever even imagined. But if you're going to become all you were created to be, you've got to take off the “average” label.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Destiny

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• The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing.

  Glen Cook

  Men, Two, People

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• When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch.

  Charles Baxter

  Moving, Love You, World

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.23, Vintage

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• If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

  Juan Cole

  Democracy, Doe, Politician

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• If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

  Sean Covey

  Type, Persons, Ifs

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no one on Earth quite like you. No one can compare to you. Three questions: Do you realize how special you are? Do you believe how special you are? Do you demonstrate to the world how special you are? Don’t live your life trying to live someone else’s life. Be you!

  Clifton Anderson

  Believe, Special You, Live Your Life

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• You're all Buddhas, pretending not to be. You're all the Christ, pretending not to be. You're all Atman, pretending not to be. You're all love, pretending not to be. You're all one, pretending not to be. You're all Gurus, pretending not to be. You're all God, pretending not to be. When you're ready to stop pretending, then you're ready to just be the real you. That's your home.

  Marcus Thomas

  Real, Home, Atman

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