Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

I can only be who I am.

Always try to be yourself.

I think a person has to just be herself.

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.

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

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

Savor what you are and not what everyone else wants you to be.

You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.

I can't not be who I am.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

Being yourself is one of the greatest things you can possibly do. Being true to yourself.

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

I believe in just being yourself, and the whole kit and caboodle comes with it.

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.

Just keep being yourself. Keep being yourself, and people recognize it.

In the beginning of 'Jersey Shore,' for sure, that was the real Mike. That's the Mike that I know, that's the Mike I love. And that's the Mike I strive to be every day.

My music just stands for being true to who you are.

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

Live the life you're living and try and stay who you are

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

It's better to become who God created you to be than to try to promote yourself to become something you're not.

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.

Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not.

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