As weird and awful and terrible as it may seem to be yourself sometimes, it will always reward you.

The single greatest gift you could ever give the world is to be exactly who you are.

If you want to be like someone, there's nothing stopping you from modeling yourself after someone else. You don't have to BE them - that's not your job in life. Your job in life is not to be someone else. You just want to be as good at being you as that person is at being them.

When I'm feeling sad, or lonely, and I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know where I'm going, I imagine the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself just telling my present self, "It's okay. You just gotta grab that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out."

You can always care [about what others think]. You probably always will care. But don't let it dictate your choices and what you want and what you want to accomplish and who you want to be. Don't let anyone get in the way of that. That's being yourself.

As weird and awful and terrible as it may seem to be yourself sometimes, it will always reward you.

In order to find out who you are, you will, at some point, have to feel really isolated, left out, different.