"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
— Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples."
— Mother Teresa

"...be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be."
— Henry David Thoreau

"This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values...."
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

"I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there."
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do best."
— Johnny Depp

"Keep thinking back about what Mum said about being real and the Velveteen Rabbit book (though frankly have had enough trouble with rabbits in this particular house). My favorite book, she claims of which I have no memory was about how little kids get one toy that they love more than all the others, and even when its fur has been rubbed off, and it's gone saggy with bits missing, the little child still thinks it's the most beautiful toy in the world, and can't bear to be parted from it.

That's how it works, when people really love each other, Mum whispered on the way out in the Debenhams lift, as if she was confessing some hideous and embarrassing secret. But, the thing is, darling, it doesn't happen to ones who have sharp edges, or break if they get dropped, or ones made of silly synthetic stuff that doesn't last. You have to be brave and let the other person know who you are and what you feel."
— Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones the Edge of Reason)

"I should not talk so much about myself if there were any body else whom I knew as well."
— Henry David Thoreau

"I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other."
— Jane Austen (Jane Austen's Letters)

"When you heal yourself, let it be in aloneness.
When you find your own, let it take time.
When you search your heart, let it be in silence."
— C.A. Cruz

"There is only one you. . . "
— Livi Ogilvie

" A person can fit in with a thousand words... but only one fits in with you."
— Ellie

"No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine."
— Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

"Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind.

Self changes, and you follow."
— Vera Nazarian

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else"
— Judy Garland

"The hardest part isn't finding what you need to be, it's being content with who you are."
— The Ataris

"...once you recognize, or admit, that your primary goal is to fully express yourself, you will find the means to achieve the rest of your goals..."
— Warren Bennis (On Becoming A Leader: The Leadership Classic--Updated And Expanded)

""You have to look within youself, to save yourself from the other self. Only then will the true self reveal itself"
Zuko in a way of Iroh"
— Zuko in AVATAR - The Last Airbender

"What you are is a gift from God, What you do with yourself is your gift to God."
— ????

"It's your truth that shows who you truly are far more than your abilities."
— ????

"I feel inclined to do my best for it is the best that I can do."
— Jordan