Knowing Who You Are Quotes - Page 4

• Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are.

  Geneen Roth

  Fear, Drug, Feelings

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure. The nerves are steady, the chemical system has an equilibrium, and there is relaxation, equipoise. You live in the clarity of knowing who you are.

  Vimala Thakar

  Relaxation, Quality, Nerves

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• I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.

  Joni Mitchell

  Who I Am, Life Is, Knows

  Song: Woodstock, Album: Ladies of the Canyon

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• Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

  Bebe Moore Campbell

  Knowing, Mind, Who You Are

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• Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

  Eric Hoffer

  Trust, Beauty, Math

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

  Jenifer Lewis

  Thinking, Knowing, Self

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

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• Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

  John Bradshaw

  Self, Opinion, Hell

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.28, Health Communications, Inc.

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• It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Starting Over, Forever, Going Away

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.227, Vintage

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• Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

  Yanni

  House, Bigs, Marble

  Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

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• Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

  Amy Bloom

  Intimacy, Persons, Known

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• Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

  Diane Wakoski

  Born, Process, Involvement

  Diane Wakoski (1988). “Emerald Ice: Selected Poems, 1962-1987”, p.136, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Want, Drag, Thread

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.117, Penguin

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• There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Reality, Quotation Marks, Use

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• Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Knights, Monsters, Reason

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• I think beauty comes from actually knowing who you are. That's real beauty to me.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Real, Thinking, Knowing

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• Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Running, Crazy, Thinking

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• To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

  Erich Fromm

  Birth, Born, Minutes

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

  Diane Ackerman

  Life, Want, Passengers

  "On extended wings". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1985.

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• It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Self, Looks, Backwards

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

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