Being real Quote by Nicole Krauss

It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most…

— Maureen O'Hara

At the end of the day, we are real people going through real things.

— Perrie Edwards

If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and…

— Qiu Xiaolong

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.

— Wayne Dyer

To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit…

— Anthony Giddens

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

— Viktor E. Frankl

I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

— Danielle Steel

Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather, it seems to be a by-product of…

— Sidney Jourard

“Yes, and I have training dealing with deep, existential questions,” Dahl said. “The way I’m dealing with it right now is this: I don’t…

— John Scalzi

To what extent do we self-construct, do we self-invent? How do we self-identify, and how mutable is that identity? Like, what if one could…

— Sarah Jones

Self-creation never ends. You are continually creating yourself from the field of infinite possibilities. You are, in every moment, born again. And so is…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. This unfinished work of…

— Rebecca Solnit