"The most common form of despair is not being who you are."

— Søren Kierkegaard

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

— Virginia Woolf

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

— Carl Jung

"I would rather be happy than dignified."

— Charlotte Brontë

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

— Coco Chanel

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

— Joseph Campbell

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are."

— Jim Morrison

"The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had."

— J. Paulsen

"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."

— Anaïs Nin

"Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about un-becoming everything that isn't really you."

— Paulo Coelho

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

— Oscar Wilde

"Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth."

— Rumi