Real Self Quotes - Page 2

• When characters are drifting away from the "correct road", or in fact from any road they were supposed to follow, they lose control, they find other goals...and possibly their real selves. All these moments of changes, of self-questioning, are like an engine to the films I make - that's where lie the dynamics I'm interested in as a director.

  Anne Fontaine

  Real, Lying, Character

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.

  Deepak Chopra

  Teenager, Real, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Self, Obvious

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Think about all the good things of your life. Never think about your difficulties. Forget yourself, and concentrate on being of service as much as you can in this world, and then, having lost your lower self in a cause greater than yourself, you will find your higher self: your real self.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Real, Thinking, Self

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.130, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Those who have overcome self-will and become instruments to do God's work can accomplish tasks which are seemingly impossible, but they experience no feeling of self achievement. I now know myself to be a part of the infinite cosmos, not separate from other souls or God. My illusory self is dead; the real self controls the garment of clay and uses it for God's work.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Real, Self, Achievement

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.128, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation to the end of becoming strange and frightened, but apart from ones own real self.

  Israel Horovitz

  Real, Self, Punishment

  Israel Horovitz (1968). “The Indian Wants the Bronx”, p.5, Dramatists Play Service Inc

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Growing Up, Real

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers. The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

  Richard Bach

  Spiritual, Teacher, Real

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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The players have no real self-esteem when it comes to putting the best image out there in a real competitive fashion.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Fashion, Real

  7 Copy quote

• Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Real, Self

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...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

  4 Copy quote

• 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".

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  14 Copy quote

• I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

  Florence Welch

  Real, Self, Streaks

  17 Copy quote

• But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Real, Believe, Self

  "Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg on what makes women succeed". Interview with Pattie Sellers, fortune.com. October 05, 2011.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  16 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source