#yours

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#bathe #be yourself #goose #itself #make

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#self-actualization #self-awareness #self-reliance #awareness

And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#complicated #deed #evil #good #labels

Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. ↗

— Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

#nature

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself. ↗

— John Fahey

#fame #full #go #head #you

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#accepting #feel #how #little #outer

The only one that believes in you, is you. Don't lean on how others see you to find belief in yourself. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#confidence #inner-searching #self-esteem #self-belief

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#artistic #basically #come #creative #decent

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#divinity #emulate #gift #great #greatest

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#anyplace #be happy #chances #generate #happy