John Bradshaw Quotes

We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.

Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.

Did you get so caught up in the preoccupancy of a relationship that you lost who you were or were busy in life or career that you, like Adam and Eve, got lost in the garden putting fig leaf after fig leaf title, relationship, this accolade, this saying over you that you forgot who you were and what's life's about? So getting back to the core of that and building life by design, that is authentic.

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

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

Who is it that can tell me who I am?

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.

Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am or will be. I'd love to be able to touch a bell and summon the real me, because if I really need myself, I mustn't disappear.

You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.

You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.

Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.

Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.

It's easy to forget who you are.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

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.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.