Paulo Coelho Quotes

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.

If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you're just yourself, people respond to that.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.

Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don't conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn't change that for anybody.

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.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?

I think the best way to deal with fitting in is to be yourself. It sounds hard, but in the end, it's much easier than pretending to be something you're not.

There's no reason trying to fit in: Just be you. That was the biggest thing for me, just being me, and finding what works for me.

Just because you're not like other people doesn't mean that you're bad. It means that you're different, and that's great.

Don't worry about fitting in - it's completely over-rated.

I'm very selfish. I make music that I love because I only live once, and I'm an artist. I don't try to revolt against anybody, and I don't try to please anybody. I feel very strongly that I if love it, someone else will love it - not everybody, though.

I don't care what other people think about me to be honest with you.

People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.

Even though I was 34 or 35 or something. I was like, “People can do that? Women can actually just say what they think?” It was an extraordinary experience to do that movie with her because every day was a lesson in how to just be yourself.

No matter what society is trying to drill in your head about how you should look, how you should act, and what you need to say, I think it's all crap. All of it. Be yourself and do you.

Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.

Be different - without concern for what others think.

Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.

You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

Be yourself, no matter what they say.

I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.

One thing I've learned best from my mom is to be yourself and not everyone will get you and that's okay. I try to bring that into everything that I do and just understand that I will not be everyone's cup of tea and that's fine.

When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else is wrong." That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked.