Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.
You have to take me for me. I am who I am.
Never compromise your values.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
If I must be faithful to someone or something, I first of all have to be faithful to myself.
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.
I don’t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.
I love you just the way you are but you don’t see you like I do. You shouldn’t try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.
Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.
Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image.
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.
What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else and avoid trouble?
You don’t have to change who you are, you have to become more of who you are.