Top 100 Be Ourselves Quotes
#1. Love is something that we don't control. We have to be ourselves. You can be sexual, nonsexual, asexual, bisexual, or trisexual and it really doesn't have a lot to do with enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#2. We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
Shakti Gawain
#3. For there were good men. As long as we women remembered to be strong. As long as we remembered to be ourselves
Mindy Klasky
#4. In Hollywood, we're always looking for the next big thing that will help us feel fulfilled. As actors, we're always trying to be someone else. Things like therapy help us learn how to be ourselves. Sometimes.
Jen Calonita
#5. How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?
Katie McGarry
#6. I think when we start to understand what masculinity and femininity is, then men won't fear so much the feminine side coming out. And the masculine side for women coming out won't be such a burden, in a way. Just be ourselves.
Hamid Drake
#7. Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
Ben Marcus
#8. My hope, of course, is that we won't have to play by these archaic rules forever and that eventually we can all just be ourselves.
Sheryl Sandberg
#9. We don't have time to be ourselves. We only have time to be happy.
Albert Camus
#10. We seek healing both from the internal wounds of distorted self-understandings and feelings of inadequacy, and from the outward wounds of alienation from others and exclusion from our communities. We desire the freedom to be ourselves and to love others as ourselves.
Adam S. McHugh
#11. All the contortions we go through just not to be ourselves for a few hours.
Keith Richards
#12. many religious folks call a "spiritual hospital" (church) for the "spiritually sick," usually ends up being a place where everyone looks healthy? So instead of being a place where we can "be ourselves," the church usually ends up being a place where we pretend everything is okay.
Joshua Tongol
#13. It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is very easy. You don't have to do a thing.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#14. There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves.
William Arthur Ward
#15. ... and surely we shall not continue to be unhappy
we shall be happy
but we shall continue to be ourselves everything
continues to be possible
Frank O'Hara
#16. We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
Alice Walker
#17. When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time.
Shunryu Suzuki
#18. We should be able to be ourselves. Make a political stand if you want to.
Loretta Swit
#19. We also want to leave our own area behind, our domestic world so well regulated day to day; we are drawn by the desire no longer to be at home and therefore no longer to be ourselves. We want to interrupt a life where we merely exist, in order to live more.
Stefan Zweig
#20. I don't believe we are accidents in the world, and I don't believe we were supposed to be actors either. I think we were supposed to be ourselves and we were meant as a miracle.
Donald Miller
#21. The single biggest threat to our own wellbeing tends to be ourselves
Tom Rath
#22. We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
May Sarton
#24. Jethro had been the disappointment.
I'd been the clown.
Individually we had become more.
But together and with each other, we didn't need to be our labels.
We were free to just be ourselves.
Penny Reid
#25. What ever we desire to do should start with authenticity and end with authenticity. This simply means we should be ourselves in every step we take to pursue our dreams. Authenticity is the back bone of every dream that lives inside of us.
Euginia Herlihy
#26. To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#27. As it turns out, we're all still learning to be men, or women, all still learning to be ourselves. pg 197
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#29. The addiction was all about looking for oblivion, for forgetting, the contortions we go through just enough to be ourselves for a few hours.
Keith Richards
#30. The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.
Brian Christian
#31. I have a whole lot of fun in trying to serve others and just keeping it funky, trying to keep it real, trying to ensure that we are able to be ourselves and get beyond these deodorized discourses and deodorized spaces that put on masks.
Cornel West
#32. When we do not succeed to be ourselves, we finally realize that is was completely useless to exist ...
Hugo Pratt
#33. My hope is, as we start sixth grade, as we get older and wiser, that we all learn to trust each other enough so that we can truly be ourselves, and accept each other for who we really are. Thank you. How I Finally Introduced Myself I
R.J. Palacio
#34. Grace strips away the tin, rips off the masks, helps us to be ourselves so that when we speak of our faith it rings true.
Charles R. Swindoll
#35. By finding the courage to be ourselves, we gain the power to make a difference.
Lindsey Stirling
#36. The art of Life is to be Ourselves.
Jan Jansen
#37. [Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.
Jean Vanier
#38. It bothered me that we behaved differently when other people were at the arcade. It bothered me that we had to be different at different times. I wished we could always be ourselves.
Drew Nellins Smith
#39. We want our freedom; we want to be ourselves, but we are also afraid to be by ourselves.
Miguel Ruiz
#40. As we get older and wiser, that we all learn to trust each other enough so that we can truly be ourselves, and accept each other for who we really are.
R.J. Palacio
#41. We are born to be ourselves-in need of upgrading the gene-to look back again and again and befriend the person we once intended to become.
Joan Anderson
#42. No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
William Hazlitt
#43. 'Going home' is a journey to the heart of who we are, a place where we can be ourselves and welcome the reality of our beauty and our pain. From this acceptance of ourselves, we can accept others as they are and we can see our common humanity.
Jean Vanier
#45. When clouds will become heavier than the land in us led our entire life by the steps of our Destiny, we will understand that not their moments' rain has darkened the sun of our life, but the failure to be ourselves.
Sorin Cerin
#46. Hiding our fears behind compulsive behavior of any kind severely limits our ability to be ourselves.
Sue Patton Thoele
#47. We can only be ourselves in the long run. Everyone can be someone else for a time. Actors have jobs for a reason. But eventually, our true natures win out. You never could have been someone else for long, even if you tried. It would have broken you
Jeanette Murray
#48. We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now
Eckhart Tolle
#49. We have to break the mirror to be ourselves...
May Sarton
#50. Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.
Pablo Casals
#51. The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.
Markus Zusak
#52. Even the homes we leave on purpose, the families we break away from to be ourselves or someone else, call us back again and again, to a place that has long since ceased to be home yet still holds power over us.
Rachel Friedman
#53. ...Our challenge as Christians is not to try to convert people around us to our way of belief but to love them, to be ourselves living incarnations of what we believe, to live what we believe and to love what we believe.
John Main
#54. Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must.
Neil Gaiman
#55. We all aspire to be ourselves, an original character in a litany of fiction so vast that we know we cannot.
Jasper Fforde
#56. We can do our best to change people, to summon them to be whom they are capable of being, but ultimately they only people we will always have the power to change will be ourselves.
Harold S. Kushner
#57. Do we know ourselves - our "self"? How are we supposed to be ourselves if we are not our selves? And how can we be our selves without knowing who we are, such that we are certain of being the ones we are?
Martin Heidegger
#58. Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.
Euripides
#59. Let's not imitate others.Let's find ourselves and be ourselves.
Dale Carnegie
#60. There are days we all live with defensive thoughts in our mind. Without losing these thoughts we can't totally be ourselves, and enjoy life's freedom of the heart.
Ron Baratono
#61. Rural and traditional escapism. That's my angle. Places and events where we are free to relax and be ourselves, where nobody tells us to hurry along or conform or grow up. Somewhere we can properly live.
Fennel Hudson
#62. We must be ourselves, we must decide where to go.
Paul Tillich
#63. Deep within each of us is a longing for home. We yearn for a place of comfort where we can be ourselves, where we can realize our dreams.
Denise Linn
#64. We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.
Albert Camus
#65. Why do you pretend, when you can make it real? We like pretending to be someone else but the truth we just want to be ourselves.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#66. The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.
Madeleine L'Engle
#68. The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives we will see that most of the time we do things just to please others, just to be accepted by others, rather than living our lives to please ourselves.
Miguel Ruiz
#69. The warrior has awareness ... we are aware that we are at war , and the war in our minds requires discipline. Not the discipline of a soldier but the discipline of a warrior. Not the discipline from the outside to tell us what to do and not to do, but the discipline to be ourselves, no matter what.
Miguel Ruiz
#70. The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.
LZ Granderson
#71. We don't have to go in search of our mission or purpose. The more we search for it, the more it will elude us. We just have to be ourselves and find our joy in the present moment or do what calls us in the present moment and our mission will unfold.
Anita Moorjani
#72. We can all be ourselves, be true to ourselves, and all be together.
Herbie Hancock
#73. Lost World Maybe that is the problem with the world. We do not know what to feel and we do not know how to be ourselves.
Robert M. Drake
#74. What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?
John Macmurray
#75. We're not perfect, we're not clean cut. We're just trying to be ourselves.
Louis Tomlinson
#76. They, like me, like all of us, had, once upon a time, in a past so far away it seemed like heaven, caught by chance a glimpse of an inner essence, only to forget what it was. It was this lost memory that pained us, reduced us to ruins, though still we struggled to be ourselves.
Orhan Pamuk
#78. Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#79. I wonder why the celebrities remodel themselves with plastic and then proclaim in ads to be ourselves! Well hellooo... Nice example
Gayathri Jayakumar
#80. I want to show that we all have the right to be ourselves, and I certainly don't want to freeze time.
Erin O'Connor
#81. If we're afraid to be ourselves, then who are we? Where's there left to hide?
But if we could concur that fear, we just might be strong, powerful. We just might be unstoppable.
Veronica Roth
#82. were we ordered to make a temple of wood and stone to the Spirit, inasmuch as such worship is due to God alone, it would be a clear proof of the Spirit's divinity; how much clearer a proof in that we are not to make a temple to him, but to be ourselves that temple.
John Calvin
#83. Too many among us are afraid to be ourselves. So we give up our dreams to follow the crowd.
Robin Sharma
#84. We all know from our personal experience that we can be ourselves only in and through our world and there is a sense in which 'our' world will die with us although 'the' world will go on without us.
R.D. Laing
#85. All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.
Jean Vanier
#86. Freedom is not something we have, there is no such thing as freedom. Freedom is a quality of our personality: we are more or less free to resist pressure, more or less free to do what we want and to be ourselves. Freedom is always a question of increasing freedom one has, or decreasing it.
Erich Fromm
#88. Do we dare to be ourselves?' This is the question that counts - and not, 'Must a man be helpless?' ... A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics.
Pablo Casals
#89. We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.
Antonio Tabucchi
#90. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
Neil Gaiman
#91. We were all given our opportunities to be ourselves. A little bit of ourselves.
Kristin Chenoweth
#92. I was really lucky because I went to an all-girl school and that single sex education really helped me because I really learned to bond with women and to not compete with or compare myself as much because we were all allowed to be ourselves and be unique and kind of have our unique strengths.
Kerry Washington
#93. I think everybody is different. We are trying to be ourselves, and other people are trying to be themselves. We all share commonalities with each other, but all of us have different thumbprints. We all have our own unique things.
Michael Gungor
#94. We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#95. We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
Max De Pree
#96. Antony said to Poemen, 'Our great work is to lay the blame for our sins upon ourselves before God, and to expect to be tempted to our last breath.
Benedicta Ward
#97. The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.
Vilayat Inayat Khan
#98. To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.
Bill Crawford
#99. We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#100. In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term.
Richard Leakey
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