Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

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

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

I just wanna be myself, and I want you to love me for who I am

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

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

Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you're supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody. I was born that way.

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

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.

I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be 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.

I've had people say things to me like, 'Don't change.' I don't know how to be anything other than myself.

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

Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.

They tell me what to wear, how to look, what I should say, how I should be. Until recently I had given into that pressure, I lost sight of who I was. I listened to opinions of people and I tried to change who I am because I thought others would accept me for it. And I realized I don't know how to be anything but myself.

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

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

I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.