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Adoption is outside. You act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn't belong. And you act it out by trying to do to others what has been done to you. It is impossible to believe anyone loves you for yourself. I never believed that my parents loved me. I tried to love them but it didn't work. It has taken me a long time to learn how to love - both the giving and the receiving. I have written about love obsessively, forensically, and I know/knew it as the highest value. I loved God of course, in the early days, and God loved me. That was something. And I loved animals and nature. And poetry. People were the problem. How do you love another person? How do you trust another person to love you? I had no idea. I thought that love was loss. Why is the measure of love loss?

A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know.

A person may learn things all their life, but never gain knowledge of truth.

An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken!

A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations.

Although it’s good to try new things and to keep an open mind, it’s also extremely important to stay true to who you really are.

Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence.

And anyone will tell you that's the whole point. You want to meet someone who likes the same things you do, and who likes you most when you're most being yourself.

And I’m sure everyone else would too if you only allowed them to see more of who you really are, rather than pretending to be someone you’re not!

And maybe it works the other way, too. Maybe being friends with someone can make you shut yourself off to stuff that you want to be a part of.” She doesn’t speak, just shifts her weight back and forth a few times. I look up at Nicole and give her what I hope is my most sincere look, because she has to know that I’m speaking the truth. “I never meant to turn you into someone you didn’t want to be. I don’t care what you do. If you want to be a cheerleader, then awesome. You can be a nun or a backup dancer for the Jonas Brothers. I don’t care. I just don’t want you to think you can’t be my friend and the things you want to be.

Aunque ser distinta signifique ser maravillosa, de igual manera trae problemas. Quizá la solución es ser distinto a solas, escondido, en tu casa, en tu pieza, a lo más con un amigo al frente, pero nada de actuar fuera de lo normal en la calle, delante de otras personas, y mucho menos en el colegio. Si no, al final uno termina solo.

Authenticity is about what makes you, you. It is an expression of your beingness.

A vida é igual em toda a parte e o que é necessário é a gente ser a gente.

Being gifted means facing the next level of depth without ever being repulsed by the curse that comes with the magic of being different.

Be as advertised.

Being a good person is not nearly as honourable as being yourself.

Being different is not being odd; it's being unique

BEING - - - - being is just what it is. Decide to be YOU and that decision will never limit you from being you, being you it is always the best choice to open the door to the REAL power of YOU. _nickc

Being original is beautiful. Copying someone is just being a fool

Being yourself is an old myth, being fake in this world of cruelness is a new trick

Being yourself means being so many people. One lives so many lives in one.

Believe in what you are, and not what others want you to be

Be strong enough to ignore the negative opinions of people, so that your positive spirit could illuminate your true unique colors.

Being here is such a contrast to where I’d otherwise be.

Embrace your crazy.

... but as with so may diagnoses it is, in the end, the symptoms that matter, not the cause, because this is what being alive means, this is what being a person means, to be sickened by an illness known as you.

Cause what the hell is wrong with expressing yourself, trying to be me?

Charm is simply a matter of being yourself. Your uniqueness is your power.

Dear heart, we embrace the song and the story and all our gifts because the world has such great need, and because the world exceedingly rejoices, and because there is no sadder thing than to leave this world having never really shown up.

Did he know that she was so dissatisfied with herself that she was always pretending to be different? Probably he did, and despised her for it. More than anyone she knew, Joe Willard was always, fearlessly, himself.

Don't be yourself, just be.

Don´t let your work define you. But let you define what works for you to defy and refine you even more.

Enclosing your thought in meaning is like enclosing a free animal in a cage. You cannot expect it to be happy.

Can't have a care when you unzip & bare the rare hieroglyphs from the archeological digs unearthed from those undiscovered inner layers.

Don't be afraid to be who you are, no matter who that person might be.

Entering into and opening to our inherent spacious soul daily allows a natural liberation of our manifold self-identifications to occur, and it is then that we can truly rest in the sacredness and come to know our ground of being. The great Celtic writer John O’Donohue points to this when he says that “behind the façade of your life, there is something beautiful and eternal happening.

Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling like you could do better.

God is the best makeup Artist I have ever seen however, you may get an honorable mention for sprucing.

Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there’s only grey – no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll or a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you’ll always be you.

Friends afford us a change to express our deepest selves, and that the conversations we have with them are a privileged forum in which to say what we really think and, by extension and with no mystical allusion, be who we really are.

Go ahead and be ordinary. Eccentricity is extraordinary.

God, no. I don’t want to tame her, I want to watch her. I just want to watch her be herself – it turns me on like nothing else.

He made you you—on purpose. You are the only you—ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our lives, not fighting him or ourselves. He looks at us with pleasure and with mercy, and he wants us to look at ourselves with pleasure and mercy too!

I can curl my hair and paint my nails and wear my hand-sewn summer dresses. I can roll dice and design costumes for heroes and flip through comic books. All as myself. Finally.

I can only be free when the other people around me are free.

He said my dream doesn't mean I am crazy, only that I should probably love myself a little better, like most people.

HOME, which is the last floor for everyone.

Horses' eyes are covered with blinders to keep them unaware of their surroundings and focused on the race or pulling a wagon. Horses without blinders are horses who can be themselves. I want Adam to be himself, without any blinders, which only means I must continue telling him the story.

I did not want to be like anyone else. I wanted to remain in my own skin, although it was often so constrictive... I had to find a bridge to reach people, I must learn to live with them without always feeling at a disadvantage.

I do understand! I understand what they do not, and that is you can only do with what you have. What God has given you. If you try to be anyone else, it is the worst thing that can happen because you cannot ever be them - and then you give up being you