Real Self Quotes

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

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Graduation, Confidence

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• The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Self, Depth, Divinity

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• It is fine to imitate a being you respect, but you cannot become that very being. Imitation is something one does to grow and develop. It is not something you use to deceive yourself. You absorb in yourself the things you think have some kind of value, but even if you try to find the meaning about your true self you will not find anything. Because those who cannot accept their real self always fail.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Real, Thinking, Self

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• My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.

  Anais Nin

  Real, Adventure, Self

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• Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Real, Loneliness, Self

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It's the same with self-loathing. You're probably just normal and normal-looking but that's not a real identity, not the way ugliness is. Normality, just accepting that you're probably normal-looking, lacks the force field of self-disgust. If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.

  Emma Forrest

  Real, Believe, Force Fields

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.51, A&C Black

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• Even when we're with someone we love, we're foolish enough to think of her body and soul as being separate. To stand before the person we love is not the same as loving her true self, for we are only apt to regard her physical beauty as the indispensable mode of her existence. When time and space intervene, it is possible to be deceived by both, but on the other hand, it is equally possible to draw twice as close to her real self.

  Yukio Mishima

  Real, Love Is, Thinking

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• Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Life, Real, Men

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• You are not feeling empty because you don't have much money. You are feeling empty because you have not yet encountered your real self, you have not come to your authentic individuality.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Money, Real

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• The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.

  Mrinalini Sarabhai

  Dance, Art, Pain

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• True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be found in the Self only. Find your real Self and all else will come with it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Pain, Real

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• Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of Man - the Atman.

  Swami Vivekananda

  God, Spiritual, Real

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• Happiness is your True Nature.
  Within you is Unimaginable Beauty.
  Your True Self is Bright and Shining this Moment.
  Through the clear Realization of the Truth,
  your Real Self will come shining through.

  Robert Adams

  Real, Self, Shining

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• ...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies.

  Susan Sontag

  Real, Self, Poet

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• She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Real, Self, Hands

  "Anna Karenina".

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• We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Decisions You Make, Self

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

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• I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

  Florence Welch

  Real, Self, Streaks

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• My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Real, Self, Siddhartha

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• What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

  Eleanor Porter

  Encouragement, Real, Heart

  Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin

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• We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, War, Humility

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• I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Children, Growing Up

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House

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• Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences.

  Bertrand Russell

  Real, Thinking, Self

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.10, Lulu.com

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• Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.

  May Sarton

  Real, Believe, Struggle

  May Sarton (2015). “May Sarton: A Self-Portrait”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

  Richard Bach

  Spiritual, Real, Future

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• You break free when you feel neither beneath anyone nor superior to anyone, when you shed the need to control other people, when you create space for others to be who they are and for your real self to be what it is.

  Deepak Chopra

  Real, Acceptance, Self

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “Power, Freedom, and Grace: Living from the Source of Lasting Happiness”, p.60, Amber-Allen Publishing

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