Being Ourselves Quotes

“...we're only ever our true selves when we think we are alone.”
― John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

“Unfortunately, we don't have all that many good examples to follow. The people that our cultures label as "successful" are the ones who have become wealthy or famous or celebrities, but the truly successful people--those who have become happy and who are living happy, loving, giving lives--aren't often featured in our newspapers or newscasts. We see the politicians and the criminals and the athletes and the entertainment "stars," but we don't see the people who can truly inspire us to be happy by being just who we are.”
― Tom Walsh

“Just being ourselves, feeling proud of what we are by God's grace, believing in our own efforts to be successful in whatever we do...is real happiness :-)”
― Sriveena Dhagavkar

“When you have watched someone from childhood, you know them. You know what they came with, even if you don’t like it. Young children don’t pretend to be something they are not. They don’t even know how to. They only know what they are.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Let us stop being deluded about life and its ways. Let us flee, my love, from being ourselves... Let us never remove from our finger the magic ring that summons, when turned, the fairies of silence and the elves of darkness and the gnomes of oblivion...”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet