True Self Quotes

247 True Self quotes by 190 unique authors

The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality. — George MacKay
I knew that I would have to be brave. Not foolhardy, not in love with risk and danger, not making ridiculous exhibitions of myself to… — Piper Kerman
Do not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants you. — Genevieve Behrend
The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love. — Gayle Forman
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
Your technology is the inner practice of meditation, which will stimulate the link between your brain and ignite your innate desire to know your True… — Michael Beckwith
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in… — Socrates
False self is an identity based on what you have, what you do, and what others think about you. In stark contrast to this is… — Basil Pennington
Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try to know them… — Brenda Ueland
There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before… — S I Hayakawa
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. — Carl Jung
One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey,… — Satish Kumar
What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage between romantic love… — Terrence Rafferty
Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a… — Dorothy Bryant
Come into the mountains, dear friend Leave society and take no one with you But your true self Get close to nature Your everyday games… — Susan Polis Schutz
Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming… — Henri Nouwen
Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are. — John Bradshaw
Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter — Johann Georg Hamann
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. Â This is the true self. Â Every other identity is illusion. Â God's love for you… — Brennan Manning
Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves. — Steve House
If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their… — Ellen Willis
Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self… — Adi Shankara
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses. — Parker J. Palmer

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