“ Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
“ If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”
– Johann von Goethe
“ The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“ At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“ We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”
– Andre Berthiaume
“ One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”
– Oscar Wilde
“ It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.”
– Andre Gide
“ Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in..”
– Janeane Garofalo
“Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own.”
– Angelina Jolie
“ I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.”
– Bobby Brown
“ How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we’re not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?”
– Katie McGarry
“ Don’t dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.”
– Steve Mariboli
“ A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.”
– Jim Morrison