The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.
Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
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.
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.
What we know matters but who we are matters more.
When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.
It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.
Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.
Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also, if I am to be whole.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.
Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.
Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.