This document discusses the importance of being true to yourself and not trying to be like others. It provides several quotes that emphasize this theme, such as "you are who you are" and "be who you are and say what you feel." The quotes are from various sources like Walt Whitman, the Bible, Oscar Wilde, and Dr. Seuss. The overall message is that people should embrace their individuality and uniqueness rather than conforming to others.

1. you?
who
are

2. “The whole theory of the
universe is directed
unerringly to one single
individual - namely to You.”
~Walt Whitman

3. do u know
who you are?

4. and GOD said,“Let us
make man in our image,
after our likeness.”
~Genesis 1:26 (RSV)

5. wow!!!

6. and God described
himself as
“I am who I am.”
~Exodus 3:14 (RSV)

7. SO....

8. you are
whoyou are.

9. “Most people are other
people. Their thoughts are
someone else's opinions,
their lives a mimicry,
their passions a quotation.”
~Oscar Wilde

10. “If God had wanted me
otherwise, He would have
created me otherwise.”
~Johann von Goethe

11. “You were born an original.
Don't die a copy.”
~John Mason

12. “It's been difficult,
because everyone wants
me to be a little like them.”
~Kodwo Brumpon

13. “Rabbi Zusya said that on
the Day of Judgment, God
would ask him, not why he
had not been Moses, but why
he had not been Zusya.”
~Walter Kaufmann

14. “All the mistakes I make
arise from forsaking my own
station and trying to see the
object from another person's
point of view.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

15. “All the knowledge I possess
everyone else can acquire,
but my heart is all my own.”
~Johann von Goethe

16. be YOU...

17. “Don't bother just to be
better than your
contemporaries or
predecessors. Try to be
better than yourself.”
~William Faulkner

18. “It's like, at the end, there's
this surprise quiz: am I
proud of me? I gave my life
to become the person I am
right now! Was it worth
what I paid?”
~Richard Bach

19. “Be who you are and say
what you feel, because those
who mind don't matter and
those who matter don't
mind.”
~Dr. Seuss

20. “Always be a first-rate
version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate
version of somebody else.”
~Judy Garland

21. “Wherever you go,
go with all your heart.”
~Confucius

22. “Think positively about
yourself.... ask God who
made you to keep on
remaking you.”
~Norman Vincent Peale

23. Compiled by
Hilary Richard Sam
kodwobrumpon@hotmail.com