Victoria Moran Quotes

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

I've learned that all you can be in this world is you. No matter how much you mess with yourself, with surgery or you know, clothes or cut your hair differently or how much you wish and pray and dream that you're gonna wake up as someone else, it's never gonna happen. You have one life and one opportunity, and all you can be is the best you.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

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.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

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

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

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Hima is Hima only. I haven't changed.

Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself.

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the version of yourself that you're supposed to be - like in God's eyes. It doesn't matter if you're half crazy, or eccentric, or whatever it is - that you have to be true to who you were born to be.

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become. Then the teachers, the priests, the leaders - they all go on emphasizing that you have to become somebody; otherwise, you have wasted your life. Just the opposite is the case. You are a being. You need not become anybody else. That is the meaning of simplicity: remaining at ease with one's being, and not going on any track of becoming - which is unending.

What keeps me going is that quest for just being able to be present and be myself. Not for people, but for me.