True Self Quotes - Page 11

• It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.

  John Calvin

  Men, Self, Looks

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.18, Lulu.com

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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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• For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.

  Rob Bell

  Giving Up, Heart, Thinking

  "Hello, Rob Bell - The Interview". Interview with Skye Jethani, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

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• Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life - marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of power and promise that come into our world show us our true selves- who we are, who we are not, who we wish we could be.

  Hillary Clinton

  Our World, Self, Work Relationships

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “It Takes a Village”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.

  Timothy Keller

  I Love You, Christian, Falling In Love

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• If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.

  Ziggy Marley

  Honesty, Lying, Self

  FaceBook post by Ziggy Marley from Jan 22, 2014

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• The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

  Percy Cerutty

  Sports, Hockey, Self

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• Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspiration, Self, Entrepreneur

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• Life is not about finding your true self, but creating who you wish to be.

  Steve Redhead

  Art, Self, Creating

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• When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself, or others; one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own. There can be no blame anywhere. One swallows what is, and becomes free.

  Rodney Collin

  Inspirational, Self, Weakness

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• Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings have called it over the centuries, we often find ourselves surrounded by bossy, hectoring voices trying to short-circuit our personal experience by super-imposing their own disappointments. Much of this bossiness masquerades as an education.

  David Whyte

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Self

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.59, Penguin

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• Travel compels you to discover your spiritual side by elimination: Without all the rituals, routines and possessions that give your life meaning at home, you're forced to look for meaning within yourself Indeed, if travel is a process that helps you 'find yourself', it's because it leaves you with nothing to hide behind - it yanks you out from the realm of rehearsed responses and dull comforts, and forces you into the present. Here, in the fleeting moment, you are left to improvise, to come to terms with your raw, true self.

  Rolf Potts

  Spiritual, Home, Self

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• I was focused before - obsessed, really - with the appearance of perfection. But what did that ever bring me but pain? Pain and not seeing people for who they really are. If I ever get out of here, I'll look at people differently. I'll look for their true selves beneath the mask of their bodies. I'll look at soul.

  Cheryl Rainfield

  Pain, Self, People

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• I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

  Naomi Watts

  Sexy, Self, Labels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.

  Gayle Forman

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Self

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Aug 02, 2013

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• We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.

  R. D. Laing

  Spiritual, Self, Mad

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Your technology is the inner practice of meditation, which will stimulate the link between your brain and ignite your innate desire to know your True Self. Trust yourself in a deeper way & reap the rewards!

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Technology, Practice

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Jan 22, 2013

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• Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.

  Socrates

  Life, Success, Education

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• False self is an identity based on what you have, what you do, and what others think about you. In stark contrast to this is the true self in Christ, which is who we are before God and in God - Christ living in us, as Paul put it to the churches in Galatia

  Basil Pennington

  Christian, Thinking, Self

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• Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try to know them without my mind pressing against theirs, or arguing or changing the subject. No. My attitude is: "Tell me more. This person is showing me his soul. It is a little dry and meager and full of grinding talk just now, but presently he will begin to think, not just automatically to talk. He will show his true self. Then he will be wonderfully alive."

  Brenda Ueland

  Attitude, Party, Thinking

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

  Alice Walker

  Self, Twins, Natural

  Alice Walker (1997). “The Same River Twice”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self.

  Guy Finley

  Wisdom, Sweet, Self

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Feb 21, 2014

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• I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Song, Self, World

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• Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.

  RZA

  Self, Age, Figures

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel like my true self is unacceptable to most people.

  Ezra Furman

  Self, People, Secret

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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