“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots” ~Victor Hugo
“Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.” ~Arthur Freed
“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.” ~Joss Whedon
“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” ~Alice Walker
“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself” ~Rita Mae Brown
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ~Oscar Wilde
“Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box” ~Twyla Tharp
“If I decide to be an idiot, then I’ll be an idiot on my own accord.” ~Johann Sebastian Bach
“Be yourself — not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.” ~Henry David Thoreau
“All I can be is me — whoever that is.” ~Bob Dylan
“The things that make me different are the things that make me.” ~A. A. Milne
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ~Steve Jobs
“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” ~André Gide
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn” ~Gore Vidal
“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.” ~André Gide
“Poor is the soul whose pleasure depends upon the permission of another” ~Madonna
“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.” ~Georgia O’Keeffe
“Do not compromise yourself. You are all you have got.” ~Janis Joplin
”Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” ~Kurt Cobain