D. H. Lawrence Quotes

The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not.

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

I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves.

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.

Learn what you are and be such.

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.

It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

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

It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.

The whole journey of being a wrestler is also a journey of finding yourself and who you are. If it feels natural to you, it's natural to me because I'm just being myself every time I'm out there.

I can't do anything else apart from be myself.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

One thing is certain: you can never become anything other than yourself, and unless you become yourself you cannot be happy. Happiness happens only when a rosebush grows roseflowers; when it flowers, when it has its own individuality. You may be a rosebush and trying to flower as lotus flower - that is creating insanity. Erase the mind. And the way to erase it is not by fight: the way to erase it is just to become aware.

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So it's not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well ... which is easily done, because then you don't have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else.

Always try to be yourself.

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