Leo Buscaglia Quotes

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.

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

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.

I couldn't change who I am; I couldn't change the kind of player I am.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

I spent so long trying to be other people, and it made me really deeply unhappy.

I am what I am. Whatever it was that made me what I am, I thought I should stay around and be that.

How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?

I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither.

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

I've never been more normal than I am now.

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.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.

I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.