Being Yourself Quotes - Page 23

• One of the most crippling things we can do to ourselves is expect someone else to make us happy

  Sue Thoele

  Strength, Emotional, Can Do

  Sue Patton Thoele (2016). “The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem”, p.40, Conari Press

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• Be yourself. If you water yourself down to please people or to fit in or to not offend anyone, you lose the power, the passion, the freedom and the joy of being uniquely you. It's much easier to love yourself when you are being yourself.

  Don Coppersmith

  Self Esteem, Love You, Passion

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• Love is richest, most genuine, and most long lasting when you focus on being yourself and doing everything you can to make it possible for the other person to be him- or herself.

  Mira Kirshenbaum

  Love Is, Long, Focus

  Mira Kirshenbaum (2005). “Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives”, p.160, Harmony

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• Another way to put an end to self-rejection is ask yourself whether what you're telling yourself is what a friend would say, or what an enemy would. Friends are supportive. Enemies put us down and undermine our confidence. So if you say something that an enemy would say, stop. Answer back, 'I'm going to be supportive of myself. As a friend, what I have to say to myself is . . .' Then say something supportive.

  Mira Kirshenbaum

  Rejection, Enemy, Supportive

  Mira Kirshenbaum (2005). “Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives”, p.87, Harmony

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• Fear-of not being loved, of abandonment, of being thought to be selfish-is the main thing that keeps us vulnerable and bound in the chains of emotional dependence. Therefore, our two most difficult challenges are to truly believe it is okay for us to be ourselves and to learn to live with, move through, and heal our fears.

  Sue Thoele

  Selfish, Believe, Moving

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• But when you personalize your life, when you make your life a place where you can be yourself, when you do things the way you want to do them, your life feels like your home. And that is a tremendous source of emotional energy.

  Mira Kirshenbaum

  Home, Emotional, Energy

  Mira Kirshenbaum (2008). “The Emotional Energy Factor: The Secrets High-Energy People Use to Beat Emotional Fatigue”, p.56, Delta

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• Your emotional energy only cares about how successful you are at being yourself.

  Mira Kirshenbaum

  Successful, Emotional, Energy

  Mira Kirshenbaum (2008). “The Emotional Energy Factor: The Secrets High-Energy People Use to Beat Emotional Fatigue”, p.40, Delta

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• Emotional dependence is the opposite of emotional strength. It means needing to have others to survive, wanting others to "do it for us," and depending on others to give us our self-image, make our decisions, and take care of us financially. When we are emotionally dependent, we look to others for our happiness, our concept of "self," and our emotional well-being. Such vulnerability necessitates a search for and dependence on outer support for a sense of our own worth.

  Sue Thoele

  Mean, Emotional, Opposites

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• The reality is you've got to be yourself. You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Reality, Views, People

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. February 5, 2007.

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• You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Discovery, Finding Yourself, Lasts

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Fantasia of the Unconcious: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.73, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

  Walt Disney

  Men, Artist, Skills

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• I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.

  Walt Disney

  Individuality, Would Be, Wanted

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• One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Law, Finding Yourself, Know Yourself

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• Two identical things do not exist at all, so there is no need to be 'somebody.' You just be yourself, and suddenly you are unique, incomparable. That's why I say that this is a paradox: those who search fail, and those who don't bother, suddenly attain.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Unique, Two

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• Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself.

  Willow Smith

  Mean, Hair, Whipping

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

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• I don't think you can be too ashamed of anything as long as you were being yourself. I think why people feel, um, so entitled over me is that they've watched me grow up. But that's a blessing and a curse.

  Miley Cyrus

  Growing Up, Blessing, Thinking

  "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.elle.com. April 30, 2014.

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• Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. When I was younger, based was a negative term that meant like dopehead, or basehead. People used to make fun of me. They was like, "You're based." They'd use it as a negative. And what I did was turn that negative into a positive. I started embracing it like, "Yeah, I'm based." I made it mine. I embedded it in my head. Based is positive.

  Lil B

  Fun, Mean, Thinking

  "Lil B Talks Getting Sucker Punched, Gay Rumors, & Drake Envy". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 10, 2010.

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• And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

  Gertrude Stein

  Believe, Identity, Remember

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.76, Vintage

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• When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling like a ghost. Eating to take up space, eating to give yourself the feeling that you have weight here, you belong here, you are allowed to be yourself -- but never quite believing it because you don't sense yourself directly.

  Geneen Roth

  Believe, Space, Giving

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• As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different--sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Children, Teenager, Differences

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• One of the biggest lessons is to keep your feet on the floor. Just keeping grounded and not really getting above yourself and always trying your best to be yourself.

  Johnny Reid

  Always Trying, Feet, Lessons

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Being consistent is way less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project.

  Merlin Mann

  Good Luck, Interesting, Consistency

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2011

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• When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.

  Kaitlyn

  Bullying, School, Mean

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• Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Fate, Punishment, Identity

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• You're just trying to be yourself, and for me, playing soccer is being myself. One day, you're one person on a team. The next thing people are asking your opinion about things you're not an expert on. Because they recognize you, they think you must know something about something - which isn't necessarily the case.

  Brandi Chastain

  Soccer, Team, Thinking

  "Brandi Chastain talks about LeBron dustup". Interview with Dan Fleschner, www.today.com. March 27, 2008.

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