True Selves Quotes

“Let's burn our masks at midnight
and as flickering flames ascend,
under the witness of star-clouds,
let us vow to reclaim our true selves.
Done with hiding and weary of lying,
we'll reconcile without and within.
Then, like naked squint-eyed newborns,
we'll greet the glorious birth of dawn;
blinking at the blazing, wondrous colors
we somehow failed to notice before.”
― John Mark Green

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

“Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don’t think it’s okay to be weak…We have been injured in many ways and our real self houses all of the evidence of those injuries. The pain, the brokenness and the emotional underdevelopment we all possess is part of who we really are.”
― Henry Cloud, Changes That Heal: How to Understand the Past to Ensure a Healthier Future

“An inexhaustible capacity to engage in sin is what makes human beings capable of living a virtuous life. To err is human; to seek penance is humankind’s unique act of salvation. Whenever a person fails, it is often their overwhelming sense of anguish that drives them forward to make a second attempt that is far more bighearted than they originally envisioned. The need for redemption drives us to try again despite our backside enduring the terrible weight of our greatest catastrophes. There is no person as magnanimous as a person whom finally encountered tremendous success after previously enduring a tear-filled trail of hardships and repeated setbacks. In an effort to redeem our lost dignity, in an effort to regain self-respect, we find our true selves. By working independently to better ourselves and struggling to fulfill our cherished values, we save ourselves while coincidentally uplifting all of humanity.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“In this jangle of causes and effects, what had become of their true selves? Here Leonard lay dead in the garden, from natural causes; yet life was a deep, deep river, death a blue sky, life was a house, death a wisp of hay, a flower, a tower, life and death were anything and everything, except this ordered insanity, where the king takes the queen, and the ace the king. Ah, no; there was beauty and adventure behind, such as the man at her feet had yearned for; there was hope this side of the grave; there were truer relationships beyond the limits that fetter us now. As a prisoner looks up and sees stars beckoning, so she, from the turmoil and horror of those days, caught glimpses of the diviner wheels.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“Sometimes it is only in our darkest hours that we show our true colours in life.”
― Anonymous

“When we’re brave enough to expose our true selves, we create connections and build relationships.”
― David Taylor-Klaus

“We face challenges pushing us in a million directions all the time, whether we’re being pulled to hide our truths or pushed to compromise our integrity. The more we are connected to our true selves, the more whole we are. The more whole we are, the stronger we are to navigate our own life.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Generally, the longer it takes for us to make a decision, the greater the disconnect between our current experience of life and our true selves.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“The inspired life is living life in deepest connection with our true selves, acting on what we truly need, want and desire, and basing happiness on what is in our control.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“I understand that you are learning new things, seeing a different way of life and because you are you, you're full of enthusiasm. But let the mother you think knows nothing and is pretty much useless tell you this: people are just people. Nobody is a bigger saint than the next one; they just hide their true selves better. Sooner or later, you'll figure out for yourself that this community you're madly in love with and want so much to be a part of is just like the rest of the world.”
― Naomi Ragen, An Unorthodox Match

“It's when we're trapped in complete darkness that our true selves are revealed.'

His otherworldly glow winked out.

'Who are you when the world fades away? What are you made of? How strong is your mind, your will, your capacity to fight? When there is nothing, who do you become?”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“Our greatest responsibility is to feel love, which is to know our true selves, and to be genuinely at peace in this world. It is from this inner abundance that we naturally give to others. There is no breathing out unless we first breathe in.”
― Barry Vissell, Heartfullness: 52 Ways to Open to More Love