Rajneesh Quotes

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.

I'm losing myself trying to compete with everyone else, instead of just being me.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.

Very often, people are obsessed with what others think of them. It's like if a flower wants to be a cactus or a palm but it's not. A flower is a flower, and that's enough. That's all you have to do is be a flower.

It changes everything when you accept who you are and you don't try to change yourself.

I don't want to be taller; I want to be myself.

As you get older, whatever your struggles may be - how you sound, how you look, how you dress - you grow into yourself a little bit more. You end up realizing the world wants you and not a carbon copy of six other people.

When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.

Life becomes easier when we stop aping people. Which is on all fronts, be it looks, body shape, or anything.

Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.

Stop comparing yourself to other people; you are an original. We are all different and it's okay.

Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.

Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.

Apparently God makes us all different. Some of us are happy to respond to His individual touch on our lives by remaining individuals, and others of us are intimidated or frightened into trying to become like each other so that we have company, so that we don't feel so lonely.

There will always be somebody more successful, more beautiful, more talented. You have to realize, you're not running their race. You're running your race.

Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.

As women, we are constantly told that we need to compare ourselves to a girl in school, to our co-­workers, to the images in a magazine. How is the world going to advance if we're always comparing ourselves to others?

Personality begins where comparison ends.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.