Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.
Until you know that life is interesting, and find it so, you haven't found your soul.
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Learn what you are, and be such.
We are betrayed by what is false within.
If I trim myself to suit others I will soon whittle myself away.
This above all: to thine own self be true.
In the world to come they will not ask me, "Why were you not Moses?" They will ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?"
A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.
All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.
What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.
It is possible to be different and still be all right.
Let me listen to me and not to them.
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
The crow that mimics a cormorant gets drowned.
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.
