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33 Uplifting Quotes About Doing Me

In a world that often tries to mold us into predefined shapes and expectations, there’s an incredible strength in being unapologetically yourself. We all have our unique paths, dreams, and quirks that make us who we are. That’s why we’ve gathered a collection of quotes about doing me – because embracing your authenticity is a journey worth celebrating.

Quotes To Be Your Authentic Self

1. “Be yourself – not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.” – Henry David Thoreau

2. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton

3. “I don’t know what other people are doing – I just know about me.” – Thelonious Monk

4. “Those who inspire others are people who are themselves. Why not try to be an inspiration to others?” – Annette Szproch

5. “Don’t be mad cuz I’m doing me better than you doing you.” – Donald Glover

6. “You are not obligated to apologize for who you are. Unapologetically be yourself and the right people will love and appreciate you for it.” – Alan Young

7. “Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart – it’s all a man has.” – Hubert Humphrey

8. “I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in-between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.” – Eminem

9. “Always be a first-rate version of yourself and not a second-rate version of someone else.” – Judy Garland

10. “Being your authentic and unapologetic self… Now that’s courage, confidence, and self-love! Never underestimate yourself… There’s great power in simply being YOU.” – Stephanie Lahart

11. “The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.” – Leo Buscaglia

Quotes About Doing Me

12. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”- Shannon L. Alder

13. “I choose to be authentic in everything I do.” – India Arie

14. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life but define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein

15. “Don’t let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are.” – Jaeda deWalt

16. “No other version, no matter how perfect it is, would ever feel better than being your true self.” – Edmond Mbiaka

17. “Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are‚ that’s a goddess.” – Banks

18. “Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!” – Mandy Hale

19. “Don’t dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.” – Steve Maraboli

20. “I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.” – Johnny Depp

21. “It’s not your responsibility to want the life that others want for you.” – Colin Wright

22. “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” – Bertrand Russell

Quotes To Be Unapologetically Weird

23. “Be who you were created to be, and you will set the world on fire.” – St. Catherine of Sienna

24. “Sharpen your edges and be the best version of your weird self.” – Colin Wright

25. “Nobody is so weird others can’t identify with them.” – Rebecca Miller

26. “Whatever makes you weird is probably your greatest asset.” – Joss Whedon

27. “I’m the pink sheep in the family.” – Alexander McQueen

28. “It’s ok to be weird. And maybe your weird is my normal. Who’s to say?” – Lady Gaga

29. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” – Bernard Baruch

30. “I am weird; you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.” – Dr. Suess

31. “I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.” – Johnny Depp

32. “Be weird, be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.” – C.S. Lewis

33. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe

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Well, do you feel ready to embrace your weirdness now? Which quote was your favorite?

Also, tell us one character trait or habit that makes you ‘weird’ but that you unapologetically continue doing.

Until next time, Felicity Seeker!

Study Motivation Backgrounds & Study Vibe Mood Boards

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34 Traveling Phone Backgrounds & Vision Boards

Blog, Phone Backgrounds

Here are 34 traveling phone backgrounds and vision boards that will make you look forward to your next vacation.

These traveling phone backgrounds and vision boards are for real travelers. That means those of you who don’t just travel to a different country for a pool or beach. But rather for the sake of immersing yourself in a different culture.

Real travelers make an effort to see all the sights there are to see, not because they want to have Insta-worthy selfies but because they want to glimpse at foreign history.

Ture travelers also make it a point to try out foreign cuisine instead of tourists looking for a burger, fries, and pizza, no matter the country they’re in.

I hope you are one of those travelers who make plenty of memories outside the hotel. Memories that do not always have a matching picture because you were too involved in experiencing them to think about getting out your camera.

I hope you travel because you truly enjoy it and not only because it is expected of you.

Traveling Vision Boards

Traveling Backgrounds

Did you like these traveling phone backgrounds and vision boards? Did you download or save a couple of them?

I hope they bring a smile to your face whenever you see your lock screen or your Pinterest board.

Have a great rest of the day, Felicity Seeker!

33 Dark Academia Phone Wallpapers + Moodboards

Blog, Phone Backgrounds

The Dark Academia trope has found many fans over the years. If you are one of them, check out these Dark Academia Phone Wallpapers and Moodboards.

33 Quotes About Water To Help You Flow Smoothly Through Life

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Water is the most versatile of the four elements. These quotes about water are inspiring for anyone who wishes to flow more smoothly through life.

Inspirational Water Quotes

1. “Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.” – Wallace Stevens

2. “The legends say the moon was the first waterbender. Our ancestors saw how it pushed and pulled the tides, and learned how to do it themselves.” – Yue, Avatar: The Last Airbender

3. “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.” – Bruce Lee

4. “Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.” – Percy Ross

5. “The way of water has no beginning and no end. Our hearts beat in the womb of the world. Water connects all things, life to death, darkness to light. The sea gives and the sea takes.” – Tsireya, Avatar: The Way Of Water

6. “To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.” – Alan Watts

7. “And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.” – C. S. Lewis

8. “Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.” – Lao Tzu

9. “There’s hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall.” – Patrick Ness

10. “Water is the driving force of all nature.” – Leonardo da Vinci

11. “Grace is finding a waterfall when you were only looking for a stream.” – Vanessa Hunt

12. “Water is life, and clean water means health.” – Audrey Hepburn

13. “Water is soft and humble, but it is the most powerful and is the most endurable.” – Debasish Mridha

14. “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.” – Karen Blixen

15. “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” – Mahatma Gandhi

16. “Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” – Bruce Lee

17. “Water was calmness and tranquility, but it was the rage of a storm as well.” – F.C. Yee, The Shadow of Kyoshi

18. “Surrender to the flow of the River of Life, yet do not float down the river like a leaf or a log. While neither attempting to resist life nor to hurry it, become the rudder and use your energy to correct your course to avoid the whirlpools and undertow.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

19. “You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.” – Edwin Louis Cole

20. “Even though the largest rocks may stand in its way, water will always find a way to get through it.” – Roger Lee

21. “The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.” – Lucretius

Be Like Water Quotes

22. “The sea does not like to be restrained.” – Rick Riordan

23. “This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is.” – Dennis Rodman

24. “Be fluid. Be like water. Flow around the obstacles.” – Master Choa Kok Sui

25. “A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.” – Lucy Larcom

26. “You can’t stop the waves but you can learn to surf.” – Jon Kabat-Zan

27. “Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.” – Crystal Middlemas

28. “The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.” – Sigmund Freud

29. “Don’t be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.” – Kim Young-ha

30. “Anyone can take the wheel of the ship in calm water but it’s not so easy when it’s not calm water. You can’t just enjoy the good times, you have to be resilient in the tough times.” – Sean Dyche

31. “Running water never grows stale, so you just have to keep on flowing.” – Bruce Lee

32. “Water is the element of change. The people of the Water Tribes are capable of adapting to many things. They have a sense of community and love that holds them together through anything.” – Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender

33. “The mind is like water. When its turbulent, it’s difficult to see. When it’s calm, everything becomes clear.” – Prasad Mahes

Did you like the Avatar quotes I sprinkled in? I’ve always loved that series and Katara especially.

I hope you have a great rest of the day, and make sure to drink lots of water!

Until next time, Felicity Seeker!

33 Light Academia Phone Wallpapers & Moodboards

Blog, Phone Backgrounds

Do you love the Light Academia aesthetic? Then you are going to love these phone wallpapers and moodboards! There is no charge.

What is Light Academia?

Light academia describes an aesthetic that encompasses the light-hearted, romantic side of academics.

It is the mood that one experiences when visiting a good art museum, reading a classic in spring under a tree, enjoying study dates in chic cafés, and dressing in soft preppy clothes while attending an old European university.

Where dark academia provides an intense atmosphere full of mystery and drama, light academia makes you grateful for sunny days with good friends.

The key colors for this theme are beige, white, light brown, and soft pastels.