Just Being You Quotes - Page 3

• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Being willing is not enough. We must do.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

  Dolly Parton

  Life, Happiness, Being Yourself

  Twitter post from Jul 20, 2009

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• Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Being Yourself, Inspiration, Being Single

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• Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light, 25th Anniversary Edition: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.59, New World Library

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• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

  Andre Gide

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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• Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Life, Friendship

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.

  Angelina Jolie

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell

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• I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

  David Carradine

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

  Rumi

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Love Yourself, Taken

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, Being Yourself

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• Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

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• To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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• Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Inspiring, Being Yourself, Inspiration

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.486

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• They can't scare me, if I scare them first.

  Lady Gaga

  Being Yourself, Inspire, Scare

  "'Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power' at the National Museum of Women in the Arts" by Lonnae O'Neal Parker, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

  John Jakes

  Positive, Being Yourself, Believe

  FaceBook post by John Jakes from Sep 19, 2014

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