Authentic Self Quotes

• The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Privilege, Introvert

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• To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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• Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

  Kristin Hannah

  Passion, Careers, Self

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.657, Ballantine Books

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• Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Being Yourself, Failing

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• The authentic self is the soul made visable.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Yoga, Self, Soul

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• Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.

  Brené Brown

  Real, Self, Choices

  "The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are". Book by Brené Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2010.

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• The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

  Ben Okri

  Love, Inspirational, Sympathy

  "Ben Okri salutes Jeremy Corbyn in poetry with A New Dream of Politics" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2015.

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• To find yourself, think for yourself.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are here in order to grow, to transform, to become their authentic selves.

  Stephan A. Hoeller

  Self, Order, Citizens

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• The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Self, Imitation

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self.

  Ralph Smart

  Motivational, Book, Self

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• Just be your authentic self because there's nothing sexier or more beautiful than that.

  Carol Leifer

  Beautiful, Self

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• The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

  Paul Guilfoyle

  Real, Self, Findings

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• We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

  May Sarton

  Inspirational, Dream, Real

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• I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Leadership, Inspiration, Self

  "Oprah At Facebook: Incredible" by Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2011.

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• I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love.

  Idina Menzel

  Husband, Real, Thinking

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• Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Self, Pressure

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.16, Penguin

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• I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.

  Katie Couric

  Hypnosis, Self, Literature

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• Once you accept and rejoice in your authenticity, you begin to see things as YOU are. You begin to see the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Godspeed on your journey to wholeness.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Journey, Self, Soul

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• Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Self, Violence, Compare

  Twitter post from Sep 2, 2012

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• Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Love, Motivation, Self

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2009). “The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Struggle, Epic, Self

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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