“Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.”


“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.”


“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”


“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”


“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”


“We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.”


“Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself.”


“If things go wrong, don’t go with them.”


“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”


“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”


“Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own.”


“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”


“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”


“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.”


“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”


“To find yourself, think for yourself.”


“If you seek authenticity for authenticity’s sake you are no longer authentic.”


“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”


“When one is pretending the entire body revolts.”


“Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.”

“Do what you must,
And your friends will adjust.”


“Just let awareness have its way with you completely.”


“We must be our own before we can be another’s.”


“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”