Thomas Merton Quotes

I think a person has to just be herself.

I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.

I think I'm just always myself, and I think that's what's most important to me. Just be genuine. Be authentic. Be who you are and who you were meant to be. And celebrate that. Celebrate all of that.

I can only be who I am.

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

You are what you are, and I'd rather be myself than try and be what I'm not.

I decided a long time ago to be myself and not worry too much about cultivating some kind of personality that didn't feel natural or true to who I am.

It sounds really cliched, but just be true to who you are.

Be yourself, whatever it is. Even if it's scary.

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

I just wanna be myself, and I want you to love me for who I am

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.

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

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.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

It's always important to be yourself.

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.

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

Always try to be yourself.

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

To be a saint is to be yourself.

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

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

Just be yourself, it means to be beautiful.