Top 71 Our True Selves Quotes
#1. To know God begins with knowing ourselves, our true selves, whom we uncover as we make choices that help us step beyond the influence of the ego.
Peter Santos
#2. It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.
Alain De Botton
#3. In a world trying to increasingly isolate us from our environment and our true selves, books are our route to freedom, and to each other'.
Matt Haig
#4. Express to our world what is alive inside us not what their world says we should be ... Our true selves should never be created by others, Held in their pockets like belongings, like trinkets. We are skaters. We are artists. We are free.
Jason E. Hodges
#5. Generally, the longer it takes for us to make a decision, the greater the disconnect between our current experience of life and our true selves.
Elaina Marie
#6. We are either becoming more of our true selves or drifting into a false self. In
Jeff Goins
#7. Through reflection, awakening, and choice we are able to exist as our true selves. However, this is not the end. In order for us to realize and put into practice the life purpose we have chosen, endless choices await us.
Ilchi Lee
#8. It is as if we have been wandering in a foreign land looking for peace and purpose in our lives and a true sense of who we are. Jesus stands in our midst and beckons us home so that we can be restored to our true selves.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#9. If we don't know who we are, we conceal our true selves and wear the image of others
Sunday Adelaja
#10. That's the downside of growing up. There's a lot of pretending involved. We frequently act like someone other than who we really are because we don't know or aren't comfortable with our true selves.
Connor Franta
#11. It is the main motivation of humankind to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction - to experience what may be called Personal Freedom.
Brendon Burchard
#12. Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.
Jane McGonigal
#13. These brief weekly sessions helped to bring about valuable changes and health improvements in the participants. The motto was: we are all different and special, so we do not attempt to become like somebody else, but connect more deeply with our true selves.
Patrizia Collard
#14. Our true selves have scared people away. So we sometimes give them someone else to love unconditionally before introducing them.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#15. Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.
Steve House
#16. I've come to believe in some kind of afterlife. A return to our true selves, a spirit self. We're just in this physical body till we go back to spirit.
Kent Haruf
#17. When we love God because we feel we SHOULD love him, instead of genuinely love out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.
Francis Chan
#18. Our lives are the Journey we take to find our true selves!
Alyssa Gonzalez
#19. Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life - marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of power and promise that come into our world show us our true selves- who we are, who we are not, who we wish we could be.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#20. We all want to be someone else. And sometimes we succeed in convincing ourselves we can be.
But it doesn't last, and our true selves, broken and scarred, always win out in the end.
Sara Gran
#21. Emotional intimacy is most meaningful and profoundly felt when we share our true selves with our partner and when we create a loving space for our partner to do the same.
Elaina Marie
#22. Still, there's a limit to how much we can control our self-presentation. This is partly because of a phenomenon called behavioral leakage, in which our true selves seep out via unconscious body language:
Susan Cain
#23. Now comes the hour to choose between being acceptable to others or being acceptable to one's own self, for we must kill our true selves off in order to survive.
Morrissey
#24. We can't turn our true selves off and on situationally and expect them to carry and sustain us. Rationing creativity results in bipolarism of the spirit. Our creativity is also our life force. When we turn it off and on like a spigot, we start to become less and less able to control the valve.
S. Kelley Harrell
#25. In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.
Christina Baldwin
#26. Mom? What's that noise. Are you in a room full of ghosts? "No it's my Clairvoyant Certification Course. We're learning to connect with our true selves.
Katie Delahanty
#27. We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.
R.D. Laing
#28. True happiness starts in the core of our true selves as a constant, a guidepost, a default, and a strength that shines from the inside out.
Elaina Marie
#29. Longing for our idealized images of life separates us from our true selves and from our true callings.
Stephen Cope
#30. According to the psychosurgeons, we act more in keeping with our true selves in a dream than in any other situation, including the throes of orgasm and the moment of our deaths. Maybe that explains why so much of what we do in the real world makes so little sense.
Richard K. Morgan
#31. Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.
Paul Morabito
#32. Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.
Haruki Murakami
#33. SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME WE WILL NEVER FEEL loved until we drop the act, until we're willing to show our true selves to the people around us.
Donald Miller
#34. Prayer, true prayer, does not allow us to deceive ourselves. It relaxes the tension of our self-inflation. It produces a clearness of spiritual vision. . . . It saps our self-deception and its Pharisaism. . . . So by prayer we acquire our true selves."242
Timothy J. Keller
#36. Each of us is here to discover our true selves; that essentially we
are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form;
that we're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences,
that we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences
Deepak Chopra
#37. Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#38. The inspired life is living life in deepest connection with our true selves, acting on what we truly need, want and desire, and basing happiness on what is in our control.
Elaina Marie
#39. We are better than our culture. Load us down with prejudice, equip us with indifference, and we will nevertheless, at the critical moment, cast the nonsense aside and find our true selves.
Jack McDevitt
#40. The mind is a mass of contradictions and conflicts. We lie to make others trust us. We hide our true selves in the pursuit of intimacy. We chase happiness in ways that drive happiness away. When we're wrong we fight the hardest to prove we're right. Caught
John Verdon
#41. When anyone gets devoured by drugs or alcohol, their souls are in hiding on another plane. Addictions are a kind of possession and to recover our true selves, we need help remembering who we really are.
Suzan Saxman
#42. Everyone wants to be loved for who they are, even if we keep our true selves locked up and hidden. It's a nice little fantasy to believe that the right person holds the key and all the things you do not say are just somehow, magically, known.
Kate Moretti
#43. I think that even in this place we ought to live as if we had no wishes and no future, and just be our true selves.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#44. We are not inviting - we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.
John Eldredge
#45. We don't need any self-help. We need our selves to stop helping those who don't let us be our true selves.
Saurabh Sharma
#46. We all serve the illusion from time to time, but when we are able to see through it, we become open to reality. Then and only then can we understand and know our true selves and our purpose in life.
Gary Markwick
#47. We face challenges pushing us in a million directions all the time, whether we're being pulled to hide our truths or pushed to compromise our integrity. The more we are connected to our true selves, the more whole we are. The more whole we are, the stronger we are to navigate our own life.
Elaina Marie
#48. The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.
George MacKay
#49. Goddess does not want us to imitate some ideal of perfection, but to be our true selves.
Deborah Harkness
#50. Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.
Brene Brown
#51. Sometimes wearing a mask is the best way to show our true selves.
Lisa Mangum
#52. The more deeply we are our true selves,
the less self is in us.
Meister Eckhart
#53. We intend to hide our shortcomings, and the fear inside our hearts, but instead, we hide our beauty, our true selves.
Jo Ann Fore
#54. Choice is the key, because human beings are the only creatures who can choose to evolve, who can shape their destiny. Furthermore, we have been given the gift of "self-awareness," which allows us to step back into our true selves to observe and use our brains to create the world we wish to live in.
Deepak Chopra
#55. The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#56. The root cause of loneliness is not the absence of another, but the absence of the awareness of our connection to our true divine selves. - Swati Nigam
Bryant McGill
#57. The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.
Julian Baggini
#58. Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.
Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
#59. The best gift we can give other people is our whole selves in truth. By doing so we give them a true and accurate mirror that allows them to see themselves. We also give ourselves the best opportunity to grow.
A.C. Ping
#60. Our parents don't know us ... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape them we keep out secrets, our private selves.
Ellen Sussman
#61. A further, albeit more complex, possibility is that our conscious selves might suffer from characteristic uncertainty about our true values, and gather information about them from choices we make (the Jamesian: "How do I know what I like until I see what I pick").
Tali Sharot
#62. Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don't think it's okay to be weak ... We have been injured in many ways and our real self houses all of the evidence of those injuries. The pain, the brokenness and the emotional underdevelopment we all possess is part of who we really are.
Henry Cloud
#63. He means to rename us
to return us to our true names, our truest selves. He means to heal our soul holes. From the very beginning, that Eden beginning, that has always been and always is, to this day, His secret purpose
our return to 'our full glory'.
Ann Voskamp
#64. Why should we always try to be true to our natural selves? What if our natural selves are assholes? Stalin was true to himself
A. J. Jacobs
#65. Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
Sue Monk Kidd
#66. The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves).
Stephen Jay Gould
#67. We must become reacquainted with our true human selves.
Bryant McGill
#68. Sometimes it is only in our darkest hours that we show our true colours in life.
Anonymous
#69. What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.
Carrie Jones
#70. Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.
Marianne Williamson
#71. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.
Brene Brown
