The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma GandhiI want you to be everything that's you deep at the center of your being.
ConfuciusIt is never too late to be what you might have been.
George EliotI can be changed by what happens to me. but i refuse to be reduced by it.
Maya AngelouCharacter is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.
Abraham LincolnDon't let them change ya, or even rearrange ya.
Bob MarleyBe who you are and say what you feel, because in the end those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter.
UnknownSelf-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
William ShakespeareI wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
Jane AustenIf you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
Maya AngelouWe have all a better guide in ourselves if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Jane AustenOur ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us, and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Oscar WildeIt is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Herman HesseI have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath TagoreThe worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
Mark TwainThe act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.
Paulo CoelhoSuccess is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Maya AngelouHe who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
ConfuciusThe meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
Alan WattsWhat a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head and is known to none but himself.
Mark TwainIt is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin FranklinThis above all, to thine own self be true.
William ShakespeareI know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
Muhammad AliYou can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
BuddhaWhen I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
Paulo CoelhoEveryone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark TwainUnder certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark TwainToday you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Dr. SeussWhat the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others.
ConfuciusI am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Oscar WildeThe only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mahatma GandhiThe perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
ConfuciusThere's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
Drew BarrymoreWe are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
Francois de La RochefoucauldI believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Henry RollinsI didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.
Taylor SwiftTrying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan WattsMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar WildeThe self is not something ready-made but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John DeweyIf you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.
ConfuciusIt is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. RowlingThere are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond and to know one's self.
Benjamin FranklinEveryone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
Mahatma GandhiEach of us has that right that possibility to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself she will be invented. So to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.
Maya AngelouI am not bound to please thee with my answer.
William ShakespeareI'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
Oprah WinfreyAll that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham LincolnOnly the shallow know themselves.
Oscar WildeYou have to be someone.
Bob MarleySometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.
Marilyn MansonAs human beings our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Mahatma GandhiThe whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Oprah WinfreyA man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyBeauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahlil GibranWhat's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William ShakespeareAs a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I born in the world, raised in the world, having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world.
BuddhaEverybody likes to go their own way - to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Jane AustenKnowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties and its very atoms.
Kahlil GibranI have been a selfish being all my life, in practice though, not in principle.
Jane AustenEach one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Mahatma GandhiI am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.
Angelina JolieTact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham LincolnHe who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Dr. SeussYou are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?
Dr. SeussWhy fit in when you were born to stand out?
Dr. SeussI'm a rebel, soul rebel. I'm a capturer, soul adventurer.
Bob MarleyWhat you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.
Rabindranath TagoreDon’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.
Paulo CoelhoOne man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
Jane AustenHer own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions,
Jane AustenA person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.
Herman HesseHe has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value... he has given to me myself.
Herman HesseMy real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
Herman HesseI had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.
Oprah WinfreyEvery intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
Eric HofferWhat is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.
Christina AguileraHappiness belongs to the self-sufficient
AristotleIf you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
Oprah WinfreyI have nothing to declare except my genuis.
Oscar WildeThe ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
Alan WattsSuch as we are made of such we be.
William ShakespeareAs you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
Oprah WinfreyAct as you speak, speak as you feel. Do not play false to your own conscience by forcibly enslaving it and embarking on actions not approved by it.
Sai BabaFor what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
AristotleGod has given you one face and you make yourself another.
William ShakespeareBob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.
Bob MarleyI'm not a person that socializes very well.
Paulo CoelhoOur deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
George EliotNon-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
Mahatma GandhiI'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.
Tom StoppardI'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson either.
Mike Tyson