Being Your True Self Quotes

Your life is not little, and your playing small doesn’t serve the world. Your living large, on the other hand-your being your true self despite fear, fatigue, doubt, and opposition- will serve the world more than you can imagine. In fact, it may help save it. And saving the world, after all, is what all heroes (including you) are here to do.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

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, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

Being your true self is the most effective formula for success there is.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

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 they die.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

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.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

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 and an arranged marriage.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.