Bernie Siegel Quotes

What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

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

Please, please, PLEASE be yourself. If you catch yourself not, take a step back.

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

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.

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

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

Just be authentic and be you.

I'm definitely going to make sure that I just continue to live my life authentically.

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.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

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

It's always important to be yourself.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

Always try to be yourself.

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.

In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.

The goal isn't to be perfect, but to be authentic!

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

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.

You have to always remember to be yourself.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.