Real Self Quotes - Page 4

• My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.

  Hayley Atwell

  Children, Real, Kids

  "Hayley Atwell: 'The real me is a loner, a nerd and a bit overweight'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.

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• place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Children, Real

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• Early in my career I was divided because I had the real self underneath: the lawbreaker, the anarchist, the person who swims against the tide, the outsider, the loner, all of that guy. He was my private self, and I had this other side that wanted to be liked in order to do all those things I dreamed of as a little boy. I didn't realize that those things didn't go together until later. And I'm quite sure that my use of acid and peyote helped me accept what was really going on inside of me instead of what I had imposed on myself.

  George Carlin

  Real, Boys, Self

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• There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.

  John Mayer

  Real, Self, Hip Hop

  AIM Celebrity Interview, November 2005.

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• I have realized that my real self is a greater entity than any possible post or title.

  Anwar Sadat

  Real, Self, Titles

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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• May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.

  Carol Emshwiller

  Real, Self, Joy

  Carol Emshwiller (2013). “Carmen Dog”, p.78, Small Beer Press

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• The more miserable you get, the less you should look for an escape (socializing, entertainment). Rather, isolate until you see and let go of the reason for it, or move into your real Self. Never let go of - through escape from misery - a good opportunity to grow.

  Lester Levenson

  Letting Go, Real, Moving

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• Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

  Bodhidharma

  Real, Mean, Humility

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.105, Macmillan

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• Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form.

  Bodhidharma

  Real, Mean, Humility

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.105, Macmillan

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• We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When we are misunderstood, especially by family and friends, we join the 'lonely crowd.' Worse... we tend to lose touch with our real selves.

  Sidney Jourard

  Lonely, Real, Self

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• Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is the Self. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely his real Self.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Real, Men, Self

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• In real self-giving we are inspired. Whether they acknowledge us or not is not important.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Real, Yoga

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• Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.

  Richard Rohr

  Real, Self, Solitude

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• Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory procedure and a practically costly one. The bourgeois is the measure of the price paid, he who most of all cannot afford to look to his real self, who denies the existence of the thinly boarded-over basement in him, who is most made over for the purposes of a society that does not even promise him perfection or salvation but merely buys him off.

  Allan Bloom

  Real, Men, Self

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief.

  Kelly Link

  Sex, Hate, Real

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• I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take our being, that which is most precious to us, and we throw it into eternity with a total sense of offering.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Compassion, Offering

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• For years and years you enter into samadhi every day in order to attain liberation. Eternity fashions a new self which you find yourself with when you come out of samadhi. Each time you come out a little less, you might say, or your real self comes out a little more

  Frederick Lenz

  Fashion, Real, Self

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• The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Real, Party, Home

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.152, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The social web can't exist until you are your real self online. I have to be me. You have to be you. Once we are online as ourselves, connected to each other and our other friends, then you can have the evolution of what becomes the social web.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Real, Self, Evolution

  "Zuckerberg Talks To Charlie Rose About Steve Jobs, IPOs, And Google’s 'Little Version Of Facebook'". Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. November 7, 2011.

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  The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

  Bill Murray

  Real, Unique, Self

  "His Holiness, the Bill Murray" By David G. Allan, www.cnn.com. March 7, 2018.

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• Strangely enough we strengthen love in ourselves when we raise into consciousness the shadow side of our lives. Conversely, when we keep negative feelings out of sight, they smother the love that seems to lie deeper and closer to the real self. This is probably why there is so much pain in not loving. The life that is not able to express the love which is so integral to it grows deformed.

  Elizabeth O'Connor

  Pain, Real, Lying

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• I always feel that there are two choices for women. Either be totally confident about your non-size-zero body and say, 'I love what I look like and this is who I am,' or be the person who is obsessed with diet and exercise and keeping toned. What feels more realistic to me is that some days I wake up and think I love how I look. On other days I say, 'If I had real self-control, I would be 10 pounds lighter.' That contradiction is, to me, what being a girl actually feels like.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Zero, Real

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• Your real self - the I am I - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.

  Robert Collier

  Life, Real, Self

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• In truth, I’m not my body, my race, religion, or other beliefs, and neither is anyone else. The real self is infinite and much more powerful-a complete and whole entity that isn’t broken or damaged in any way. The infinite me already contains all the resources I need to navigate through life, because I’m One with Universal energy. In fact, I am Universal energy.

  Anita Moorjani

  Powerful, Real, Race

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• All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Real, Destiny, Dna

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