Being Your True Self Quotes by Blaise Pascal, Carl Jung, Ramana Maharshi, Matthew Arnold, Harvey Fierstein, Aldous Huxley and many others.
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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.
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Being your true self is the most effective formula for success there is.
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.
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
