Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.

You can't become what you aren't, or you will start feeling awful about yourself.

There are always going to be things you don’t like about yourself or reasons to compare yourself to others, but once you realize that you only get one you, it’s best to just love yourself.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.

No matter where you are in life, you'll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself and you are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world you can be compared with.

Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

Ironically, it was because I was raised as a Muslim in the South, that I realised the value in being true to who you really are. I've just got so many things going on inside. I don't know how to resolve all of them other than being true to who I am.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

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.

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.

The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them.

I never quite became the monster I wanted to be. I feel mostly monstrous as I more become myself. Because the more you become yourself, the more it disturbs other people.

I just felt that I was going to fall apart if I didn't learn to be myself.

I don't want to be taller; I want to be myself.

It doesn't feel great to be compared to Genelia or anyone. I don't want to be compared, and I would like to think I am different.