Marie Lu Quotes

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

I would never want to change myself to be someone I'm not.

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that's all you've really got; when you strip everything down, that's all you've got, so always be yourself.

I try to be authentically who I am.

If you can't,can't be yourself what are you living for? If you can't, can't be yourself you're gonna lose it all

What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you're supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

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

Being popular isn't everything; being true to yourself is!

I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.

I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

I've only ever tried to be me.

If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.

A lot of people have their own idea of how you need to conduct yourself. But I think it's important to be spontaneous and honest, because what's frightening in the process of being correct is that you might lose yourself.

When you are yourself, there is no wrong and there is no right, because being authentic and true to who you are and owning it is all anyone could ever ask of you.