Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

I've never considered myself cool, and I don't think I ever will be. Honestly, it's better that way. It's much less pressure.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

I don't have an image. Don't give me one. I want no image to have to uphold.

I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me.

You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

I seem to disappoint people a bit. They want the full regalia - but I don't walk around in a corset the whole time.

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.

I try to be as normal as I can.

I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

If I know something's expected of me, I won't wear it or do it. It just seems boring.

The role model thing gets imposed on you by someone else. I don't think that's fair.

I really don't want to be a stereotype.

I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.

I'm pretty much an out-front, straightforward chick, and I get a bit confused by expectations.

I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.

Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?

Don't imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that's a way of avoiding knowing yourself.

I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs.

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.

Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?

It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious. It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't.