being-yourself

You have a destiny and a purpose that no one else on this earth can fulfill_and you have traveled a unique journey that has equipped you along the way with the tools you need to carry it out.

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

Real is...just being you. It's not letting yourself be defined by other people's opinions of you, of who they think you are, or what they expect you to be. It's refusing to let them squash you into the box they've built for you, and just being yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. Because you're never going to matter to everyone, just like everyone's never going to matter to you. So you choose the people whose opinions you care about, and you be real for them.

When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.

Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone__ version of reality is not your reality.

When I am, you are not.

Instead of writing my rules, I followed his. And that__ when I knew it all went wrong.

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

When I am away, I am with it. When I am with it, I am away.

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?

My hair is not the shiniest of bobsMy eyes are not the brightest in the roomMy figure will not get me modeling jobsMy smile will not bring young boys to their doom.But do I cry and mourn my average face?Or wish that I had boyfriends at the ready?Do I not sleep because I lose the race,Or spurn my food because I don't go steady?My mind is on a more important thingThat lifts my heart and makes my spirit soarI want to make the souls of people singAnd quiet down the mean and bullying roar.To help the wounded girls replace the scarWith the right to be exactly who they are.

No one else can understand you better than you yourself.

There's a difference between disclosing that which is only your business and hiding away from the world and not seeing, shining and sharing your magic.

It is less about becoming a better person, and more of being better, as a person.

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.

If you must walk in someone's shadow make sure it's your own

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__onohue points to this when he says that __ehind the façade of your life, there is something beautiful and eternal happening.

Maybe it__ NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it.