Rajneesh Quotes

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.

I don't know if I would've had the opportunity to be on 'Wizards of Waverly Place' if it weren't for my heritage. I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside!

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

I am who I am, and I think that's why I'm very grateful to be an Arizona Cardinal: because the team that picked me, they picked me.

Anytime you feel jealous or envious, you reject your uniqueness. It's a criticism of God's plan for you.

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.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

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?

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.

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

I am here and I'm alive. That's enough.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

I don't need to try so hard to be someone else.

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.

You're never going to please everyone, and if you do, there's something wrong.

Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you.

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

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else

Once one feels content about what one has, then humiliation does not arise. If one could never feel content, one would never even get what one wished to have.

Comparison is the thief of joy.