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Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. -- Dennis Wholey
Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. You're probably doing things you don't want to do. -- Eda LeShan
I thought the popular kids were the cool kids. I got caught up in that, and it was bogus. School is about finding who you are because thats more important than not being yourself. -- Nick Jonas
The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop. -- Reese Witherspoon
...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. -- Ray Bradbury
Don't talk yourself into not being you. -- Bill Cosby
Forgive yourself for not being at peace. -- Eckhart Tolle
I'm not afraid of you being yourself. That's America. -- Wynton Marsalis
Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself. -- Willow Smith
Ultimately, the definition of bravery is not being afraid of yourself. -- Chogyam Trungpa
If you're conscientiously seeking approval, you're not being true to yourself. -- Tomas Kalnoky
Being impeccable with your word is not using the word against yourself. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
If you lack vulnerability then you are not being truthful to yourself. -- Benjamin Stone
Sell Not Yourself At Little Price, Being So Precious In God's Eyes. -- Rumi
If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself -- Jocelyn Murray
You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping. -- Warren Buffett
Greatness is not guarding yourself from people. Greatness is being accepted by the people -- Mike Tyson
By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before. -- Edwin Bailey Elliott
It's always about being yourself and not being ashamed of being different or thinking different. -- Marilyn Manson
Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to. -- Kevin Spacey
Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life. -- Leo Buscaglia
Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to. -- Kevin Spacey
If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there. -- George Bernard Shaw
You don't feel sorry for yourself, you get on with life. (after not being picked starting goalie) -- Jens Lehmann
Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them. -- Paul Lockhart
For me, I understood the gift of being able to empower others and to not do everything yourself. -- Wilmer Valderrama
Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself. -- A. J. Hartley
Being 21 years old is not easy in the sense that you're still trying to get to know yourself. -- Rhianna Pratchett
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself. -- Beatrice Wood
Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel. -- Yasmin Mogahed
... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself! -- Phyllis Bottome
You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being. -- Katherine Anne Porter
Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself. -- Lena Dunham
You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not. -- Patton Oswalt
You are lost because you have not been being honest with yourself, and your life is largely unexamined and unexerted. -- Bryant McGill
Being consistent is WAY less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project. -- Merlin Mann
I've learned that it's important to spend some time in a relationship with yourself and not being defined by your partner. -- Olivia Wilde
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Figuring out who you are and being true to yourself is not just important, but it is critical to being authentic. -- Kim Garst
Being yourself is not remaining where you are, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure. -- Sydney J. Harris
Being vulnerable, in my opinion, is not a weakness. It's being human. It is allowing yourself to not have all the answers. -- T. Mills
To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough. -- Peter Abrahams
It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty. -- Rick Scott
Being yourself; not acting. You therefore can function near your own level of competence. Satisfy you own expectations rather than those of others. -- John Wooden
Roland, love means not being afraid to let yourself go, trusting that I will desire everything you have to offer. -Rosaline (Roland's love) -- Lauren Kate
It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell
Its not about being included. It about creating your own space and including yourself and then finding other people that are like okay. -- Sophia Amoruso
Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures. -- Lawrence G. Lovasik
Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene. -- Marty Nemko
Society puts so much emphasis on outer appearance, but being confident in yourself and not letting others' opinions affect you is pretty amazing. -- Brendan Dooling
The challenge of being a manager is to get the best out of everybody, not just the few who are clones of yourself. -- Tim Field
If you want to be successful at being yourself, you're going to have to take a chance on not being like everyone else. -- Joyce Meyer
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. -- Rollo May
If you do put yourself out there and do things that are not safe, then you run the risk of being criticized for it. -- Mila Kunis
You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them. -- Jane Roberts
Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others. -- Albert Ellis
Don't beat yourself up for not being perfect. But you might want to kick your own a## if you're not trying to get better. -- Hal Elrod
I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much. -- Dennis Quaid
How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world? -- John Green
That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing. -- Carol Kane
Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people. -- Magic Johnson
Why waste precious time and energy trying to be someone you're not when you can put it to much better use simply being yourself? -- John Avery
You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over. -- Nigella Lawson
People aren't defined by their relationship. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships. -- Nina Dobrev
You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over. -- Nigella Lawson
People aren't defined by their relationships. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships. -- Nina Dobrev
Not everything that nearly kills you makes you stronger. Sometimes it just makes you hate yourself for being so easily wounded yet unable to die. -- Mishka
A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you're not living in alignment; you're not be being true to yourself. -- Steve Maraboli
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself. -- Dorothea Lange
The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. -- David Lynch
Being yourself is the most important element for me, because, if you're trying to be something you're not, the audience will pick up on that. -- Will Champlin
Be certain that you're not modeling yourself after someone, but just being who you are meant to be. Go ahead, be weird because "normal" is boring! -- Demi Lovato
Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science. -- David Steindl-Rast
Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes. -- Frederick Lenz
As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary. -- Sylvia Kristel
Models are some of the most insecure people I've ever met. They're constantly being told they're not good enough. You've really got to practice loving yourself. -- Miranda Kerr
You can spend the rest of your life being afraid of people rejecting you. You have to start by not rejecting yourself. You don't deserve it. -- Rae Earl
It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do. -- Alan Sillitoe
If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way. -- Alan Bennett
Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself -- George Polya
How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the time? -- Charles Yu
Feminist, whatever the definition, whatever you call yourself - I am, I'm not - none of us want little girls being forced into early marriage before they're 12. -- Natalie Dormer
Who you know yourself to be" is simply one way of being that is available to you, and you are not stuck with that way of being. -- Werner Erhard
Give yourself permission to enjoy being gay. You do have to give yourself permission. You have been told you may not. Give yourself permission to be free. -- Harry Hay
The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don't forgive yourself, you're not going to forgive your kids, either. -- Evander Holyfield
If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it. -- Emile M. Cioran
It is only because you take your mind to be yourself, and make it dwell on what you are not, that you lose your sense of well-being. -- Deepak Chopra
I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about. -- Kathleen Hanna
I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible. -- Cate Blanchett
Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst. -- Bryant H. McGill
The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being. -- Ram Dass
That's what's so amazing about climbing - it's not just a sport. It's a lifestyle, it's a way of being creative, of connecting with yourself and with nature. -- Chris Sharma
Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves. -- Scott Lynch
It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself. -- Bliss Carman
Do not place the words of ANYONE above the feelings of your own being. You can learn much from others, but the deepest knowledge must come from within yourself. -- Seth
And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself. -- Gertrude Stein
You are not merely the body; you are 100% Pure Being. But you must find this out for yourself. It must become your own discovery, happening in your innermost being. -- Mooji
You have to put yourself in my shoes as a person who believes in radical truth and in being radically transparent, not in seeing things through somebody else's eyes. -- Ray Dalio
I don't think it's not feminist to use every tool you have to succeed, and part of that is being a woman - presenting yourself in a certain way. -- Christina Hendricks

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