"be yourself- not your idea of what..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim. It is seemingly instantaneous at last.”
“It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.”
“It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of thought, like the tortoise, somewhat helplessly; yet there is more than philosophy in that.”
More on Authenticity
“Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.”
“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
“I permit to speak at every hazard,Nature without check with original energy”
More on Self Acceptance
“I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.”
“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
“So what if you're not perfect? nobody else is either.”