True To Self Quotes

“The Voice

There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you--just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.”
― Shel Silverstein

“Finding yourself" is not really how it works. You aren't a ten-dollar bill in last winter's coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right there, buried under cultural conditioning, other people's opinions, and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. "Finding yourself" is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you.”
― Emily McDowell

“Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

“A truly good person will speak truth, act with truth, and stand for Truth. A truly good person is not afraid to think from their heart; therefore, allowing nonconformist decisions, viewpoints, and perspectives to lead their life. By following their heart, they stand with their conscience, and only with God.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“If nothing else in this long and short life, let me be true to my conscience, to the dignity of my own heart. Let me act in a way that says, I have honored my spirit as truly as I have honored others'. Let me stand tall and rooted as a mountain in the face of a quaking world.”
― Jennifer DeLucy

“What do dreams matter if you lose yourself along the way?”
― Amy Fellner Dominy, OyMG

“If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself”
― Jocelyn Murray

“You have the approval of yourself. That's quite enough for we who know true inner peace! - Charmainism”
― Charmaine Smith Ladd, Shake Hands with Yourself: A Peacemaker's Guide to Happiness & Inner Peace

“The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“But it's a little like that children's book, THE VELVETEEN RABBIT, but in reverse: if you're not loved for who you are, you cease to be real. Definitely for the other person, and maybe for yourself, too.”
― Sue Halpern, Summer Hours at the Robbers Library

“When we're fully in our truth and we literally stand up and say: "Hey! Here I am!" Fully. More and more, what happens is people just come to you. Because when your soul is in your body, your soul tribe comes. And until you are fully you, it can't, because you're at the vibration of the people you're around.”
― Mishelle Bee

“Unbreakable, would you thought they called me Mr. Glass
Look back on my life like the ghost of Christmas past
Toys R Us where I used to spend that Christmas cash
And I still won't grow up, I'm a grown ass kid
Swear I should be locked up for stupid shit that I did
But I'm a champion, so I turned tragedy to triumph
Make music that's fire, spit my soul through the wire”
― Kanye West

“Our tremendous drive for social acceptance and toward conformity in our time is causing us to train our children to be a generation of young liars who do not even realise they are lying. We train our children to be subtly dishonest almost from the crib. "Shh... don't cry in front of all these people.”
― Keith Miller, The Taste of New Wine

“Why?
Because I am a sovereign being and I do what I desire to do as I feel led.
That is all.”
― Mishi McCoy

“Do we dare to be ourselves? That is the question that counts.”
― Pablo Casals

“She questioned everything and was obedient to only one thing—her heart.”
― Jennifer Donnelly

“The final option to have your book completed is to hire a ghost writer. The challenge with this option is that it is important to note that your voice IS an integral part of your branding. When you hire someone else, what your readers will ultimately get is their voice. When they see you later at your website or on your social media, your voice will not be the same. This will trigger a feeling of inconsistency when relationships need to be built upon trust and authenticity. Your audience will eventually come to think you are not the “real deal” and will find another to replace you. Finally, your book is a springboard and launching pad to greater things such as speaking, interviews, a product line, etc. Will your ghost writer be available for all of that as well? How will you be able to “ghost write” your way through an interview? Hence the reason I stress speaking in your own voice. You may think you are not perfect, but your authenticity will speak in volumes to your followers and they will be customers for life if they see your true being.”
― Kytka Hilmar-Jezek, Book Power: A Platform for Writing, Branding, Positioning & Publishing

“Think of it." Now he is speaking to you, no one but you. "It may not matter what we want for science, or what we think is ethical. All we must do is provide the right environment, and let the heart do what it desires. The heart wants to beat.”
― Stephen Kiernan

“Agathisim is the doctrine that all things tend towards ultimate good, as distinguished from optimism, which holds that all things are now for the best. An agathist accepts that evil and misfortune will ultimately happen, but that the eventual outcome leads towards the good. A setback never deters an agathist. We must not allow failure to act to arrest, diminished, or impoverish personal development and growth. We must be loyal to other people as well as be equally devoted to achieving our personal goals while adhering to our principles. If we betray ourselves at the bidding of other people, we forfeit everything that will ever matter.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Don’t imagine yourself as anything other than yourself, for to refuse to do so is to ensure that you will always be less than you imagined yourself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In the face of defeat, great Men are cool enough to accept the outcome.”
― Joan Ambu

“Don’t ever change who you are to fit into a relationship. You’re not being true to yourself and eventually you’ll get tired of pretending. And the relationship will fail.”
― Ros B

“Sometimes… people are just miserable. It doesn’t make it easier to forgive them for being such… rotters. Nor should you attempt to be anyone other than who you already are just to please those people.” He paused. “Because they will never be pleased.”
― Christi Caldwell, To Tempt a Scoundrel