Knowing Who You Are Quotes - Page 2

• The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Snakes, Skins, Shed

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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• The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dragons, Ego, Within You

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.184, Anchor

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• I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, Understanding, Stories

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• God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.

  Meister Eckhart

  Cutting, Drawing, Ties

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• Humility: The realization of our dependence on God. I have always had strong feelings about that word regardless of what anyone's background might be. One of the common denominators of greatness is acknowledging that dependence. As power comes from Charity, power also comes from knowing who you are, a divine offspring of a divine being.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Success, Peace, Strong

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• The secret to feeling attractive, and to being attractive, is the confidence that comes from knowing who you are and what you believe in.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Believe, Feelings, Secret

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• All is to be doubted.

  Rene Descartes

  Doubted, Who You Are

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• At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.

  Ajahn Chah

  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

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• The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

  Joyce Cary

  Real, Labels, Hiding

  Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”

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• The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.

  Joseph Campbell

  Intention, Advise, Ifs

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• I must forgive without noise or fuss.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Forgiving, Noise, Who You Are

  Albert Schweitzer, Steven E. G. Melamed (2003). “The African Sermons”, p.29, Syracuse University Press

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• They all laughed. I drew their pictures and they asked for copies and I handed them out as if they were my tickets to the show. In the Navy Yard, I could drink with men because I worked with men; in the Parkview, I could drink with men because I drew their pictures. The world was a grand confusion. Finally, when I was bleary, when my hand wouldn't do what I wanted it to do, I went home. I would lie alone in the dark, feeling that I was a character in a story that had lost its plot.

  Pete Hamill

  Lying, Character, Home

  Pete Hamill (1994). “A Drinking Life: A Memoir”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

  Joseph Campbell

  Miracle, Conditions, Miracle Of Life

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.84, Anchor

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• Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

  Francois Fenelon

  Love, Self, Despair

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• Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain but to handle the life that arises... If you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing... The demon that you swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.

  Joseph Campbell

  Pain, Giving, Fruit

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• I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Mean, Thinking, Earth

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.51, Shambhala Publications

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• Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Personality, Becoming, Recognizing

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• There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

  Natalie

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

  Charles Bukowski

  Knowledge, Knowing, Littles

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.138, City Lights Books

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• Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.

  Wayne Dyer

  Purpose, Where You Are, Knowing

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• As a model I had a lot of success when I was 17 and 18 years old. It was before social media, before the world was what the world is, but even then it was terrifying, to be 18 years old and people knowing who you are, and I was this personality who was completely devoid of who I actually was. It was almost like being a manufactured boy band. You're sort of like a wind up doll; they wind you up and put you on the runway or something like that.

  Karen Elson

  Boys, Media, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Be aware of yourself and know yourself. No matter how much you have learned and how much you know, if you don't know yourself you don't know anything.

  Suzuki Shosan

  Matter, Know Yourself, Knows

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• The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mind, Done, May

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

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• You're so beautiful," said Alice. "I'm afraid of looking at you and not knowing who you are." "I think that even if you don't know who I am someday, you'll still know that I love you." "What if I see you, and I don't know that you're my daughter, and I don't know that you love me?" "Then, I'll tell you that I do, and you'll believe me.

  Lisa Genova

  Beautiful, Daughter, Believe

  Lisa Genova (2011). “Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Fighting, Silence

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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