“be you and not someone else”

“Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.”

Viola Davis (1965) American actress

“The government that's strong enough to give you what you want by taking it from someone else is strong enough to take everything you have and give it to someone else.”

Harry Browne (1933–2006) American politician and writer

“Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.”

Terry Brooks (1944) American writer

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

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

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

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“It was easier to be brave when you were someone else.”

Stephen King book It

“Before you judge someone else, judge yourself!”

Zayn Malik (1993) British singer

“If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will.”

Greg McKeown (author) book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker