Our True Quotes
257 Our True quotes by 206 unique authors
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I firmly believe that we are all given signs and dreams and put in situations that define who we were and who we are to…
— Isaiah Washington
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The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.
— George MacKay
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There is a Reality which is Indivisible, One, Alone, the Source and Being of all; not a thing, nor even a mind, but pure Spirit…
— Douglas Harding
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I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we…
— John Banville
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They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots.…
— Bobby Sands
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In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
— Unknown Author
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut…
— Audre Lorde
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This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I believe that we start to see our true personalities when we go through the most difficult moments. This is when we get stronger
— Ayrton Senna
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No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, enthusiasm over lethargy, love over hate.…
— Cory Booker
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We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from…
— R. D. Laing
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Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and…
— Harville Hendrix
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When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open,…
— Wayne Muller
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More and more people are beginning to feel that there must be another way of thinking, perceiving, and acting. And perhaps the beginning of another…
— Gerald Jampolsky
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It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.
— Cassia Leo
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It is at times such as this that we show our true spirit of giving and of brotherhood - of revealing the good Samaritan in…
— Jo Bonner
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Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
— Jack Kornfield
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After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is,…
— Thomas Merton
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Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.
— Steve House
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As children of God we are somebody. He will build us, mold us, and magnify us if we will but hold our heads up, our…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence,…
— Sri Chinmoy
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In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to…
— David Graeber
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There are some things we can control and others we simply cannot. And our ability to distinguish between them is critical to our happiness and…
— Clifton Anderson
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When we embrace the things that make us unique, our true and remarkable capabilities are revealed
— Amy Purdy
Who Wrote These Our True Quotes
206 authors contributed a total of 257 Our True Quotes, led by these top contributors: