Ayumi Hamasaki Quotes

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

You can't build a future if you do not know who you are. You can't become who you are meant to be if you can't tell the truth about who you are, what you have, and everything about your life. The truth is the absolute essence to your success, while lies are the absolute essence to your failures.

The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself.

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

I have faced up to what I am.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

I am excited to show people how, when you get older, you get deeper, you get more raw, you get more honest, and you stop pretending to be the person you think people want you to be. I stopped worrying about what people wanted me to say and just sort of dug deep into my personal arsenal of my mistakes and shameful thoughts.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

What I've come up with is that I just need to be me.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

If you are honest with yourself and if you want to like what you see in the mirror, is you have to say what you really believe.

I want to show my true self, not how I want to be seen by others.

If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.

Just speak your truth, it's an important cornerstone of how your life ends up sort of unfolding in front of you. Even if it's painful, if it's honest, it's going to bring you to the place you deserve to be.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

If we can't be true to ourselves, what can we be true to?

If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.

Be as honest with yourself as possible, and try to make friends with people who like you for you - not an iteration of who you are, or who you think you should be - but really like you for you. And when you're creating whatever you want to do in your life, just try to create and put out the truest version of yourself into the world.

Its funny because when I did feel like I came out and I just felt like I was being truthful to myself, (it was at) that point I became very successful. So you know, it took a true kind of facing that truth of myself and being honest, that was when the real kind of fame or whatever that kind of stuff happened for me.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.