Rajneesh Quotes

People try to tell me like that, 'Oh, you shouldn't be proud,' or, 'You're not this,' or, 'You aren't that,' or whatever the hell. I'm just kinda here to say, like, who is anybody else to tell me who I am or what I've gone through or what I haven't gone through?

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.

Remember it's OK to be yourself.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

Don't change for nobody.

I've learned a lot about how people have to fight through their whole lives just to be themselves.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

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.

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

Living courageously in your uniqueness is really important: just being completely yourself. I know that sounds really cliche, but just do what you want to do.

I find it a very, very powerful thing to be yourself and not to try and be something else and to use that as your biggest shield and your biggest attack in the world - to just be you.

I want to stress to people to be themselves instead of trying to be like others.

I don't want to be someone else.

It's very, very important to be yourself, and that's the kind of message that I want to get across in my character as well. On TV, that's the message that I want to get across to fans of all ages, really: To get somewhere, you just have to be yourself. Don't ever change for anyone.

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.

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.

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

If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

All I want to say to people, man, is, "Yo, you see me walking down the street and I got a little bop in my walk, don't think because I've got a bop in my walk I'm trying to be all that. The bop in my walk is because I'm just like you, man. I bop when I walk." Know what I'm saying? I'm proud. If you see me smiling, standing straight up, gold around my neck, it's not because I'm conceited. It's because I'm proud of what I achieved. I made this. I worked hard for this. That's all this is about.

Be who you are. If you spend all of your time worrying about how people view you, you will not be either faithful to yourself or effective in what you're trying to do.

Great things happen when you have the courage to be yourself

If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?

Accept your own and be yourself!

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