Being Your True Self Quotes

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

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

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

People are like stained – glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Being your true self is the most effective formula for success there is.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

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

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

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

Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

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

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

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

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.

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.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

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.