Being Your True Self Quotes - Page 2

• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage.

  Terrence Rafferty

  Knowledge, Romantic Love, Finding Yourself

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• Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

  Ralph Marston

  Success, Winning, Self

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• One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.

  Satish Kumar

  Book, Journey, Finding Yourself

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• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

  Tim Field

  Meaningful, Being Yourself, Bullying

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• Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Sadness

  'Self-Dependence' (1852) l. 31

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• For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Life, Men, Finding Yourself

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• The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Men, Personal Growth

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• It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

  Lucille Ball

  Happiness, Happy, Spring

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• There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Numbers, Finding Yourself

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• A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Real Friends, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Learning, Growth

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• 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.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Pain, Self

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

  Ann Landers

  Dog, Witty, Cat

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• I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Discovery, Finding Yourself, Fleeing

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Your life is not little, and your playing small doesn’t serve
  the world. Your living large, on the other hand-your being
  your true self despite fear, fatigue, doubt, and opposition-
  will serve the world more than you can imagine. In fact, it
  may help save it. And saving the world, after all, is
  what all heroes (including you) are here to do.

  Martha Beck

  Hero, Self, Hands

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