Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather

Whatever mistake you have made about who you are is temporary. Your true identity has remained untouched. You have never sinned against it or affected it in any way except to lose touch with it.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

The next frontier is not in front of us but inside us.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

As I grow older, I feel like my authentic self has been able to shine through more and more, and people can see that.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

I realized that... at the core of who we are, we're these perfect beings - and we're not taught that.

If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring it forth, it will destroy you.

Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being.

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.

...Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.

Be who you are. Otherwise, you end up committing suicide. You end up marrying people when you shouldn't be marrying them and having terrible, secret lives.

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.