True Self Quotes - Page 10

• Choosing succulence is a deliberate act of personal revolution. It means waking up! Embracing your true self, studying your patterns, and letting out your most alive self. We all have one.

  Sark

  Mean, Self, Wake Up

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• The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting this bargain is the beginning of true self-acceptance.

  Julia Cameron

  Inspirational, Creativity, Acceptance

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.227, Penguin

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• Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.

  Paul Morabito

  Reflection, Self, Voice

  Paul Morabito, Roberto Martinez, Regis McCafferty, Carolyn O'Connell, Frederick Espiritu (2015). “Mirrored Voices: Best New Poets”, CreateSpace

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• The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.

  Brenda Ueland

  Life Changing, Moving, Self

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• When we awaken to the beauty of nature, the doors to our true self are opened up wide, for divine healing on all levels.

  Robyn

  Healing, Doors, Self

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• When we get to the point where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live in fear that he'll be shunned by teammates or outed by tabloids, when we get to the point where he plays while his significant other waits in the family room, when we get to the point where he's not compelled to hide his true self and is able to live an authentic life, then coming out won't be such a big deal. But we're not there yet.

  Jason Collins

  Athlete, Gay, Self

  "Parting shot: Jason Collins announces NBA retirement in his own words" by Jason Collins, www.si.com. November 19, 2014.

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• Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.

  Dogen

  Self, Practice, Excellence

  "Things Overheard at the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma". Book by Dogen translated by Reiho Masunaga, June 1975.

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• Attitude ... is the vanguard of your true self.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Self, Vanguard

  John C. Maxwell (2014). “The Difference Maker Lunch & Learn”, p.1, BookBaby

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• Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. ...Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism, and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence.

  E. O. Wilson

  Self, Class, Identity

  "On Human Nature". Book by E. O. Wilson, 1978.

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• You cannot hide your true self forever.

  Cassandra Clare

  Self, Forever, Identity

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1403, Simon and Schuster

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• I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself.

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Lying, Self, Firsts

  Cawaii Interview, December 2007.

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• Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We require approval from those we respect. The kinship it creates lifts us to their level, a process referred to in self-psychology as transmuting internalization. Approval is a necessary component of self-esteem. It becomes a problem only when we give up our true self to find it. Then approval-seeking works against us.

  David Richo

  Giving Up, Self Esteem, Acceptance

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• The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self.

  Asaram

  Self, Mankind, Best Service

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• imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Self, Creating

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.190, Open Road Media

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• Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true self in God, who they were before anyone said anything about them, before they received their first medal or ego identification. That`s why suffering is so important, because suffering is when those little rewards are taken away from you.

  Richard Rohr

  Taken, Self, People

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• Your false self is always that which is passing away. Your true self doesn't go up or down, it's constant - it's a rock. Once you learn how to live there, what others say about you, your failures or successes - these don't send you on a roller coaster ride down or up. It's really the only way to peace. There's no other way to be peaceful except in the true self.

  Richard Rohr

  Rocks, Self, Peaceful

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.

  Alice Miller

  Family, Opportunity, Self

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• How much of my true self I camouflage and choke in order to commend myself to him, denying the fullness of me. How often have I paraded sweetness and interest when I felt otherwise; pretended to take careful leave of him on many an occasion when I would rather have walked right out. How I've toned myself down, diluted myself to maintain his approval.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Self, Order, Camouflage

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.

  Kosho Uchiyama

  Self, Order, Avoiding

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• Oh! mothers aren't fair - I mean it's not fair of nature to weigh us down with them and yet expect us to be our own true selves. The handicap's too great. All those months, when the same blood's running through two sets of veins - there's no getting away from that, ever after. Take yours. As I say, does she need to open her mouth? Not she! She's only got to let it hang at the corners, and you reek, you drip with guilt.

  Henry Handel Richardson

  Mother, Running, Mean

  Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1934). “The End of a Childhood”

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• In a lifestyle where there are no boundaries, it becomes a challenge to find one's true self. If everything comes easily, there is no way to establish worth. And if nothing has real value, then there is no way to gauge satisfaction or accomplishment or contentment.

  Tami Hoag

  Real, Self, Accomplishment

  Tami Hoag (2007). “The Alibi Man”, p.265, Bantam

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• It's so hard for women to be happy for one another, like genuinely happy. Once you find that, you know you've found true SELF happiness.

  Zendaya

  Self, Found, Knows

  Zendaya‏ @Zendaya, twitter.com. February 21, 2015.

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• Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you dont hear the sound; you are the sound.

  Seungsahn

  Mean, Self, Voice

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• If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Letting Go, Mean, Maturity

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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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