Being Oneself

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
-Joseph Campbell

Best be yourself,
imperial, plain and true!
-Elizabeth Barret Browning

You owe it to yourself to be yourself.
-Yogi Bhajan

Be yourself -
not your idea of what you think
somebody else's idea of yourself
should be.
-Anonymous

How many cares one loses
when one decides not to be something
but to be someone.
-Coco Chanel

Don't dance around the perimeter
of who you want to be.
-Gabrielle Bernstein

Beauty begins
the moment you decide to be yourself.
-Coco Chanel

I don't have to be anything at all.
I don't even have to be myself,
because there is no such thing as not being myself.
I am inescapably myself.
-Anthony Paul Moo-Young, "Mooji"

Your duty is to be;
and not to be this or that.
-Ramana Maharshi

Be without leaving yourself.
-Ramana Maharshi

To simply be ourselves is the greatest challenge
but the simplest spiritual technique.
-Deng Ming-Dao