Top 98 Quotes About True Selves
#1. We are either becoming more of our true selves or drifting into a false self. In
Jeff Goins
#2. 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
#3. 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 problem is not that secularists are antidemocratic but that democracy is antiabsolutist.
Ellen Willis
#4. Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world.
Daniel Mackler
#5. 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
#6. If we don't know who we are, we conceal our true selves and wear the image of others
Sunday Adelaja
#7. In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.
Dirk Benedict
#8. We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.
Jane McGonigal
#12. For me, far more important than whether teachers have calm voices is how authentic they are - how much of their true selves they allow into their teaching.
Becky W. Thompson
#13. 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
#14. People don't change," Nina said bitterly. "They just get more punctilious about hiding their true selves.
Ruth Ware
#15. It happens, I do not know how, that most of the proud never really discover their true selves. They think they have conquered their passions and they find out how poor they really are only after they die.
John Climacus
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. The dark emotions everyone hid in their depths weren't all of who they really were. They weren't their true selves.
L.J.Smith
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.
Christina Baldwin
#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. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Lift others and yourself as you rise above this mess of comparison. Thank God for those who embraced their true selves and gave us gifts that only they could give: from Steve Jobs to Michael Jackson to Ray Charles to Mark Twain. There are so many more, and the list goes on.
Grace Gealey
#30. Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.
Steve House
#31. Our lives are the Journey we take to find our true selves!
Alyssa Gonzalez
#32. The truth about losers, they aren't people who enjoy being laughed at, they aren't the people who has a different clothing, it's just being your true selves, without having the effort to be cool. true winners are losers
Jericho Pasaoa
#33. People will always show their true selves in the end.
Leona Lewis
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Our true selves have scared people away. So we sometimes give them someone else to love unconditionally before introducing them.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#38. 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
#40. By putting the gift of yearning for God into every human being's heart, God at the same time draws all people made in God's image to God's self and into their own true selves.
Roberta Bondi
#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. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. We define masculinity in very narrow way. Masculinity is hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage. We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they have to be, in Nigerian-speak
a hard man,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#48. For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.
Rob Bell
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. People pretend to be other people because they have never thought of their true selves
Sunday Adelaja
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#57. Longing for our idealized images of life separates us from our true selves and from our true callings.
Stephen Cope
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. Every true artist should look upon a review without judgment, anger or disdain, with the realization that the reviewer has exposed far more of their true selves in their words, than you have, in your art.
Robert Black
#62. Flexibility in a society allows change, so that all its members have the space to discover their true selves and grow to their potential. And if every person in a society achieves his true potential, society as a whole also achieves its true potential.
Amish Tripathi
#63. Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.
A.W. Tozer
#64. Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.
Carol Lynn Pearson
#65. 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
#66. I've found that people reveal nothing of their true selves except within their art and their sin." ~ Dacey Sinnett, 'ROAM
Dez Schwartz
#67. 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
#68. The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.
George MacKay
#69. Goddess does not want us to imitate some ideal of perfection, but to be our true selves.
Deborah Harkness
#70. 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
#71. Sometimes wearing a mask is the best way to show our true selves.
Lisa Mangum
#72. All those wasted and squandered years when I did nothing but go around looking inside myself until I ended up alone even though I was surrounded by people. But I paid attention only to what was happenstance about them - not their true selves.
Sigrid Undset
#73. The more deeply we are our true selves,
the less self is in us.
Meister Eckhart
#74. We intend to hide our shortcomings, and the fear inside our hearts, but instead, we hide our beauty, our true selves.
Jo Ann Fore
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. But that love we'd had and those selves we'd been were gone, placed in a box like old photographs and letters you'd never read again.
Dennis Lehane
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. People always say be true to yourself. But that's misleading, because there are two selves. There's your short term self, and there's your long term self. And if you're only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.
Brandon Stanton
#86. 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
#87. You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous manifestations of good. Especially if you act right away. The longer you let evil hang around and get a grip on you, the harder it is to get rid of it.
Jean Ferris
#88. Be true to your divided selves. They're the only ones who will support you in moments of vacillation.
Bauvard
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
Sue Monk Kidd
#92. 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
#93. We must become reacquainted with our true human selves.
Bryant McGill
#94. Sometimes it is only in our darkest hours that we show our true colours in life.
Anonymous
#95. 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
#96. Being is always becoming; people change and stay the same. What is true for bodies is also true for selves: even the most honest person has many faces, none of which are false.
Dexter Palmer
#97. Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.
Marianne Williamson
#98. 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
