"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." -- Oscar Wilde --

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson --

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." -- Mark Twain --

"Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference." -- Theodore Roosevelt --

"The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us." -- Etty Hillesum --

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." -- William Shakespeare -- 

“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose — and commit myself to — what is best for me.” – Paulo Coelho

"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe --

 "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." -- Jim Morrison --

 "To find yourself, think for yourself." -- Socrates --

“There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.” — William James —

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” — Abraham Lincoln —

“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” — Lewis Carroll —

“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.” — Henry David Thoreau —

“You are your only limit.” — Unknown —

“Be what you are. This is the first step towards becoming better than you are.” — Julius Charles Hare —