D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

Don't try to be me. No one but me can be me. But you can be you. Look inside yourself and get to know who the real you is. And then be that person. The best version of you.

Before, I had an idea of what I thought I needed to be, and I'm realizing more and more that being yourself is the best thing.

One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

Don't ever become so preoccupied by who you want to be that you forget to be who you are.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

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

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

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

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

Be that self which one truly is.

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

You're always just going to be who you are.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

I want people to see just who I am.

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