True Self Quotes

"It is better to be a person, than a personage" "Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be" "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are" "The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position" "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." "To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self" "We all need someone to look at us to see the real, deeply buried person underneath the surface, more than we need another person to talk." "Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are" "It’s possible to change anything and everything, but what you can’t change is your basic essence." "No matter what happens, always be yourself." "Better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not" "You know it's real when you are who you think you are " "Be yourself - not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be " "Another world lies beyond the world of money and power. It's on the other side of that thin membrane, and it's more real than all the stuff we see on the news." "I've always told myself to live like the original me, and not like a made-up character." "Learn to express, not to impress" "Men should be what they seem." "Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance." "True belonging is not passive. It’s not the belonging that comes with just joining a group. It’s not fitting in or pretending or selling out because it’s safer. It’s a practice that requires vulnerability to get uncomfortable and learn how to be present with people without sacrificing who we are." "The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience, not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life."