Robert Fulghum Quotes

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

I do believe that for me, my own personal journey has been one in which my voice has also been appreciated.

Just, always remember that it's important to be your own person, and as you grow up, you start appreciating the things that make you different.

We're all different; we all have our ways of understanding ourselves and the way we live our lives and struggle with our humanity.

The whole journey of being a wrestler is also a journey of finding yourself and who you are. If it feels natural to you, it's natural to me because I'm just being myself every time I'm out there.

My identity will always inform my experience and shape my perception. But I am an unremarkable person.

Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost.

I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

Once you get everything out of your head about what everybody else is going to think, will radio play it - and I hope they do, I really do - once you shed all of that and just be who you are, that's who I am. That's taken a lot of growing up. I've come into myself musically and as a woman, and I hope to keep growing. If you don't grow, you die.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

You should wear what you want to wear and not worry about trying to paint yourself in a certain image because that self-awareness is what's going to help you become a more independent and more interesting and healthier adult.

My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves.

When I first got into the entertainment industry, I would always watch Rihanna and all those people, so I was like, 'Ooh, I have to be this.' So my mom was like, 'Just be yourself.'

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.