Anthony Marra Quotes

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

I'm not what I make.

You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have

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.

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.

All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer

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

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

There's got to be a voice deep within you that is untouched by definitions. And it is there that you become divinely who you are.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.