Browsing Topic Best Being Your True Self Quotes

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

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

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

It’s not so much making the right or wrong choices. But making decisions that are aligned with your true self. That’s what really changes your life for the better.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Self-love is walking away from people, places, and situations that make it difficult for you to be yourself.

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

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

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

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

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you’ve grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.

One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self; of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up.

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

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.