Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

I just need to be me.

I just try to do me, and I feel like it works.

But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with think, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn't. Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein.

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.

I think a person has to just be herself.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

There's no better time than now to be who you are.

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.

I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

I'm always talking about loving yourself and expressing yourself and learning how to love yourself. I'm still the same.

I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. What makes for a happy ending is what Addie said all along: freedom. The freedom to be who you are without anybody calling you names. —Bobby Goodspeed

The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

For crying out loud, stop comparing and start living! And you'll be happier with your life, I guarantee. This is crucial: the most difficult thing in the world is to be who you are not. Pretending and trying to be someone else is the official pastime of the human race. And the easiest thing in the world is to be yourself. Be happy. Live! There must be a reason why God made you tall or short or fat or thin or bumpy all over. Love who you are!

You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.

What I've got to live up to, is being myself. If I do that, the rest will take care of itself.

Accept your own and be yourself!

You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.