Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

— Bruce Lee

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

— Bryce Courtenay

Always try to come back to your senses when in love, because that's the moment you become almost carried away by sensuality and sentiments.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

— Henry David Thoreau

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

— E.A. Bucchianeri

And even if you cared what they had to say, would you act upon their opinions and create your life from it? No. Then stop replaying their toxic words in your head, it's no good for your being and start doing the things that once made you, you.

— Nikki Rowe

And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself. But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed roles...

— Simona Panova

And you finally get there, you reach a point where you refuse to feel any more pain and the desire to chase happiness out weighs any choice that gives you reason to question where you're headed.

— Nikki Rowe

An original is worth more than a copy.

— Suzy Kassem

Another great mistake is this; another understandable error is this: living to live the footprints of others when you have your own foot! Live your footprints! You were born unique! If possible, put the shoes of others, (they must fit you however) but don't walk as they walked and as much as possible, don't leave the same footprints they left except you were born to be like them, or you can change the face of their footprints into a unique artifact!

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah