Seek not to be accepted, seek to be you and accept yourself for who you really are.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
~ Oscar Wilde
"If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence."
~ Barbara Cook
This is my life, My Story, My Book. I will no longer let anyone else write it, nor will I apologize for the edits I make. "
Best to live your life based on what you truly want, instead of conforming to the expectations of others or trying to impress them. Then you will be inspired and most likely achieve both success and happiness."
I do what I do because we've only got one life to live and I want to LIVE. I want to thrive. I don't want ever to look back and think. I did an OKAY job with my life, I survived.. SURVIVED?!!! No! I WANNA LIVE! I savor the PAIN, CHALLENGES and STRUGGLES. I embrace the difficulty knowing that through pain and sacrifices, I am becoming the best I can be.. I feel strong, capable. I feel like I can take any challenge and respond effectively.I feel that totally and utterly in control of my LIFE, My DESTINY.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.U don't always have to defend yourself with words. SILENCE sometimes give clue to other people that u have more import bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces."
Joseph Sugarman
Everyone takes their own journey through life, so don't apologize if you feel like going you own way today. No one else can truly understand what you are experiencing, so no one else has the right to tell you where to go next. When those 'in the know' offer you unsolicited advice today, be polite and listen. But don't feel obligated to follow it. They have your best interests at heart, but in the end their thoughts are based on their own goals -- not yours. You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now.
Joan Baez
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.
Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.LIFE has so many great options but you don't have to pick always with what seems best.......... just pick whatever makes you really happy.
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe
Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.
That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.
Lucas Black
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton
Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say with respect.
Mariano Rivera
To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.
Pelzer
The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.
Wiz Khalifa
There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.
Hope Solo
" Be careful who you pretend to be, you might forget who you really are.
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
― Abraham Lincoln