Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Learn what you are and be such.

If you be yourself, you're good.

I can't do anything else apart from be myself.

We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.

Be yourself is all that you can do.

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spends all of its time being a tree-frog. We spend all our time trying to be somebody else.

I can't help what I sound like. What I sound like is what i am. You know? I cannot be anything other that what I am.

Love is who we are without our stories.

If you can't be yourself, what's the point of being anyone else?

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately. All I have to do is think of me and I have peace of mind. I'm tired of looking 'round rooms wondering what I've got to do or who I'm supposed to be. I don't want to be anything other than me.

Being yourself; not acting. You therefore can function near your own level of competence. Satisfy you own expectations rather than those of others.

I am just what I am, I'm just what you see. So I'll make it easy, I'll stay me.

You're never going to please everyone - you might as well be who God made you to be.

Just be yourself, there is no one better.

I am me and I am okay.

I haven't been trying to be anything other than myself.

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

I’ve always thought you are what you are and you shouldn’t pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you’re pretending to be.

What should I be but just what I am?