Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I stopped worrying about how other people define me a little bit ago. I used to care a lot. Now I just don't care that much. Really, what I'm worried about is, am I being the best me I can be?

It's easy to forget who you are.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

What do I see when I look in the mirror? One handsome man. No, I see the same person I have seen for the last 27 years: the person I believed I could be when I was a child, the person I have inspired and dreamed to be all my life, and that's the person I have seen, from being that big to as big as the roof - the same guy.

You are.

Know thyself.

I think life is about growing into yourself and getting to like that person.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?

Just be what you are. And I try to be my best self and be what I am and knowing what I am and be satisfied with that. And if people don't know it, maybe they'll eventually know it.