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“The Beatles defined their own sense of values and honor. They took stances without ever being politically correct. And they did it all with incredible humor... I honestly think that there are certain things in life that help people understand themselves. I think the Beatles are one of those things. They resonate the journey of true selfhood, really.”

People Thinking Helping Certain Values Journey Honor Incredibles Honestly Defined Things In Life True Self Stance Politically Correct

Author:Sophie B. Hawkins

“I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self.”

Long Self Struggle True Self

Author:Bruce Jenner

“[Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to show the self as an imaginary construct. There is no real Cindy Sherman in these photographs; there are only the guises she assumes. And she does not create these guises; she simply chooses them in the way that any of us do.”

Way Doe Art Real Self Use Shows Artist Term Assuming Photograph Imaginary Reverse Autobiography True Self Constructs Guise Cindy

Author:Douglas Crimp

“There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.”

Men Inspirational Humans Self Causes Failing Self Esteem Failure Philosophical Insightful True Self Lack Of Faith Being Your True Self

Author:William James

“But what is your true self is the God within you who became you, and when you realize that you are not yourself but you are he, then you discover that you and he are one, just as Jesus said. Jesus was a great master, and he had great teachings for the world, and when it says in the Bible, "All those who received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God."”

World Said Self Jesus Realizing Teaching Son Masters Within You True Self Great Teaching

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one's true self.”

Self Feelings Laughing Risk Fool Reach Out Sentimental True Self Involvement Appearing Exposing

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.”

Self Force Worry Labels True Self Conditioning External Forces

Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw

“Baby Boomers are now living longer and want to stay vibrant and gorgeous for as long as possible. I've identified a need for women to learn the basics of a healthy, holistic, daily regimen, which will bring a healthy glow to their skin. It's all about allowing our true self to shine, both literally through our skin and metaphorically through our soul.”

Want Needs Long Soul Self Baby Healthy Skins Shining Allowing True Self Gorgeous Basics Holistic Boomers Baby Boomer

Author:Sophie Heyman Uliano

“Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.”

Men Self Age Beautiful Choices Causes Mistake Youth Stress True Self Being Beautiful Age And Youth Bad Choices

Author:Miuccia Prada

“The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.”

Life Mind Heart Self Harmony Supreme Contemplating True Self Heart And Mind Finding Peace Transcendental Peace And Harmony

Author:Patanjali

“The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself - for this is your true self.”

Self Play Universe Behinds True Self

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will be pushback, resistance, and misunderstanding. I look at each of these experiences as an opportunity to educate and make the path potentially less daunting for anyone else that follows in my footsteps.”

Looks Self Opportunity Realizing Levels Path Strive Resistance Educate True Self Misunderstanding Footsteps

Author:Joanna Lohman

“How do we awaken to this true Self? By going within and putting our attention on the silent presence in our heart - the silent witness that is detached from sensory experience and at the same time enjoys that experience in complete freedom.”

Heart Self Enjoy Attention Silent Witness True Self Detached Sensory Complete Freedom

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.”

Self Events Eternal Silent Witness True Self Observing Unfolding

Author:Deepak Chopra

“We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.”

Firsts May Self Process First Time Awakening Realization True Self

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will push back, resistance, and misunderstanding.”

Self Realizing Levels Strive Resistance True Self Misunderstanding

Author:Joanna Lohman

“I feel like I've been able to be my true self and discover what I can honestly bring to the table by working with other women.”

Feels I Can Self Able Tables Honestly True Self Working With Others

Author:Kathryn Hahn

“It is the main motivation of mankind to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction--to experience what may be called Personal Freedom.”

May Self Dream Motivation Mankind Pursue True Self Our Dreams Restriction Personal Freedom

Book:High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way

Source: High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way

“What we seek in love is finding someone with whom we feel safe to reveal our true self.”

Feels Self Motivational Love Is Safe Findings True Self Finding Someone

Author:Karen Salmansohn

“You know a man can play the part of a saint just so long for a day comes when his true, his true self unfolds.”

Knows Men Long Self Play Saint True Self

Author:Sharon Jones

“Apart from a very close circle of friends, few people know my true self, and it's normal, I never put it into my music.”

People Knows Self Normal Circles True Self Circle Of Friends

Author:Marilyn Manson

“The artist is very lucky, because in an art form that's spontaneous like jazz, that's when you really see your true self. And that's why, when I put down my instrument, that's when the challenge starts, because to learn how to be that kind of human being at that level that you are when you're playing - that's the key, that's the hard part.”

Kind Art Artist Challenges Lucky Jazz Spontaneous True Self

Author:Charlie Haden

“Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.”

Self Enough Brave True Self Be Brave

Author:Queen Latifah

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

“People will always show their true selves in the end.”

People Life Real Ends Self Shows Truth Genuine Thought Provoking Being Real True Self Fake People Genuineness Trueness

Author:Leona Lewis

“It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.”

Self Brands Reaching True Self Abraham Self Actualization Ammunition Actualization

Author:Ted Nugent

“In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.”

People Way Self Actors Energy Wish True Self Baggage

Author:Dirk Benedict

“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.”

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

“This above all; to thine own self be true.”

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”

Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

“All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.”

Source: Further fables for our time

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.”

Self Ego True Self Spotlight Flashlights Ego And Soul

Book:Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem

Source: Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”

Self Wanted Difficult True Self Accord Demian

Author:Hermann Hesse

“There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.”

Knows Doe Self Body Pain Incapable True Self Delivering No Pain Loving A Woman

Book:The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

“True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.”

Doe Self Circumstances True Self

Author:Mason Cooley

“Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?”

“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.”

Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

“None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.”

Self Done Helping Lasts Lost Realizing Forever Experience True Self

Book:Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill

Source: Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill

“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”

Source: The Philosophy of Nietzsche

“Each of us is here to discover our true selves; that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form; that we're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences, that we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences”

Humans Self Spiritual Form Human Beings Taken Manifestation True Self Human Experience Occasional Spiritual Experience Spiritual Beings

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.”

“Nothing Exposes our true self more than how we treat each other in the home.”

Self Home Treats True Self

Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing.”

Self Healing Enemy Study Worship Certainty True Self Adoration Fear Nothing

Author:Clive Barker

“Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.”

Ifs Thinking Should Self Speak Originals Telling The Truth True Self

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.”

Men Made Self Whole Pain Used Names Lost Dark Knowing Shadow Hatred Sake Ruins Possessed True Self Ged

Book:A Wizard of Earthsea

Source: A Wizard of Earthsea

“While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.”

Self Past Spiritual Simple Identity Achievement Draws Claims Extraordinary Encounters Spiritual Life Mystical True Self Ordinariness Adulation Mystical Experiences

Author:Brennan Manning

“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.”

Love Self Identity Illusion Beloved True Self Christian Love Define Yourself Ragamuffin Gospel Christ Love

Book:Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

“To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.”

Love Life Made Self Reason Character Wisdom Names Love Is Existence Identity Self Love Selflessness True Self God Image God Is Love True Character True Identity

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

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