Dirk Benedict Quotes

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

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.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

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

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

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.

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

One of my problems is to find the self.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.

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.

Few things can frustrate us more than trying to make a person someone he or she isn't; we feel crazy when we try to pretend that person is someone he or she is not.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.