Quotes About Finding True Self

#1. Another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations-projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves-and acknowledge and embrace our own liabilities and limits.

Parker J. Palmer

#2. If you think about it, finding true love is a lot like finding a particular grain of sand on the beach.

Chrissy Anderson

#3. It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe.

Richard Dawkins

#4. Just because you were born into something doesn't mean that it's right and it doesn't mean that it's true. The world's greatest men and women have always been those who questioned everything that ever was presented to them as truth.

Dan Pearce

#5. The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#6. Maybe love, at its essence, is being a mirror for another person - for the good parts and the bad. Perhaps love is simply finding that one person who sees you clearly, cares for you deeply, challenges you and supports you, and subsequently helps you see and be your true self.

Penny Reid

#7. Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood.

Edwidge Danticat

#8. It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.

Bruce Forsyth

#9. How to Be an American Housewife is filled with dreams and love-the kinds that come true and those that don't. Margaret Dilloway is wise and ironic. She has created wonderful characters who never, in spite of hardships, stop finding ways to love each other.

Luanne Rice

#10. To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

Marshall Allman

#11. It is downright incredible that an extremely significant proportion of people make the wrong choice. But the good news is that we can course-correct at any stage in our life and get back on the path to finding true happiness and contentment.

Lamees Alhassar

#12. Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.

Joyce Rachelle

#13. There is fundamental importance in living well even in hard times. By "living well," I mean finding a way to live that rings true to you and your values and that brings pleasure to your life.

Robin Mather

#14. We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who's going to be the perfect fit. It's just not a reality.

Ethan Hawke

#15. My dreams about finding a place to create true, meaningful friendships around my fake video game world had come true.

Felicia Day

#16. We must become reacquainted with our true human selves.

Bryant McGill

#17. The key to using abstraction effectively in programming is finding a notion of relevance that is appropriate for both the builder of an abstraction and the potential clients of the abstraction. That is the true art of programming.

John V. Guttag

#18. Finding what's true means letting go of the lies that control.

Emma Raveling

#19. Looking for art, the theme gets lost.
Finding the theme is finding art.

Berenice Abbott

#20. True states of realization occur when you throw away all the teachings. All of the teachings, absolutely. Everything. Then you are investigation itself finding out what you are.

A.H. Almaas

#21. True religion ... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

William J.H. Boetcker

#22. Finding your True Self really means being your true self because its who you really are!

James A. Sinclair

#23. Perhaps we are all shells; but some of us have found the pearls inside, and this makes all the difference!

C. JoyBell C.

#24. We had little idea that this was the beginning of a much greater journey towards finding our true self, with Rumi and Shams as our fearless guides.

Jamila Hammad

#25. Life is not about finding your true self, but creating who you wish to be.

Steven Redhead

#26. It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we don't mean gaining "self-knowledge" or understanding one's "true nature" but rather how at some point you can see most plainly that this is what you do, this is how you fit in the wider ecology.

Chang-rae Lee

#27. There is a way to again be in real time with the universe,
but it is not through force, imagination or manipulation.
It is by finding your true Self.
When you do, you will not need to manipulate life, it will simply flow.

Mooji

#28. 'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act of your life. It's about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.

Jason Reitman

#29. When you fight yourself to discover the real you, there is only one winner.

Stephen Richards

#30. For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

Thomas Merton

#31. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.

Rick Warren

#32. Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

John Bradshaw

#33. You know that smell, when you put your nose up to a pine tree?" I told her I did perfectly. "No matter how long it has been, you always will. Like you are storing a part of that tree in your own body ... Everything stays true. You are yourself, no matter how much you have to change.

Ramona Ausubel

#34. He might be famous (local newspaper or television) for finding it, true - but if fame takes away the thing it celebrates, then Sebastien would prefer the inspired silence. We're all famous in our own hearts anyway.

Simon Van Booy

#35. The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.

Leslie Ludy

#36. Work is not a curse of God but one of the benefits of living on this earth. Finding the work you love is not a self-serving goal; it is a required component of fulfilling your true calling.

Dan Miller

#37. Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

Harriet Lerner

#38. It's as if I died too,' she whispered to herself, 'as if I was born dead.'
Ironically, it was true. Emotionally she knew what her mind did not, beyond logic, beyond reason, as if somehow deep inside she felt what Sarah knew.

Denny Taylor

#39. Her secret? Loving her own life. Finding the things that came her way of immense interest and animating them. No matter what was going on, it was great to be her, starring in her own true-life adventure.

Karen Karbo

#40. Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection.

Susane Colasanti

#41. What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

Clifford D. Simak

#42. It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention. Simply discussing how asleep we can be gives credence to the possibility of finding moments of true honest alertness.

Dan Mangan

#43. The last thing she wanted was people looking for her. No, that wasn't true
the last thing she wanted was people finding her.

Kate Atkinson

#44. The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.

Byron Katie

#45. There is no substitute for finding true purpose. But the true or primary purpose of your life cannot be found on the outer level. It does not concern what you do but what you are - that is to say, your state of consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

#46. The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.

P.G. Wodehouse

#47. The tastiest berries are often hidden.
Do not despair if you haven't found true love.
Look under the leaves and branches of convention.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#48. True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#49. The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

Tony Robbins

#50. Finding true love starts with taking inventory of our strengths and weaknesses, quirks and traits, hopes and dreams, and getting to know the person behind the mask.

Debra Fileta

#51. I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.

Brad Pitt

#52. For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to the ideal of such love can keep us from finding the one that is true.

Kathleen McGowan

#53. A true masochist hangs before me, finding pleasure from pain. Begging for, and needing more. She fills the sadist in me.

B.S.M. Stoneking

#54. What if the key to unlocking your true authentic power, to opening up your heart deeply to love, to finding the confidence to go after everything you want in your life lies hidden in your shadow?

Debbie Ford

#55. True love is finding your soulmate in your best friend

Faye Hall

#56. If finding true love was easy we'd all have a lot more free time.

John Avery

#57. Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it.

Mandy Hale

#58. Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#59. Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

Thomas S. Monson

#60. The tips of my overgrown bangs
dip into the wet of my tears.
My fingers, forehead, moisten with sweat.
I fight the slipperiness, press the valves firmly,
play the love, the hate,
the misery, the hope,
the freedom that I wanted, never wanted, can't have;
that doesn't exist.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#61. The difference between the rich and the poor, is finding true love.

Anthony Liccione

#62. Developing a true and solid character and finding unique traits that belong to only you is a foundational thing

Sunday Adelaja

#63. Death's wisdom is finding, at the end, that you think only of those you loved, and why you didn't love them more. Love is the only true force that endures.

Joey W. Hill

#64. Finding a best friend is like finding a true love: when you meet yours, you just know.

Lynn Weingarten