Parker Palmer Quotes

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

Shri Krishna says: "Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another."

It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

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.

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

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

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

My deepest desire is to do the thing that is first and foremost just.

I don't think I constantly have to be on a promotional spree or be seen in the newspapers every day or even be part of social parties and film gangs. I'm having my own set of journey, and I am happy with it because I don't want to be like everybody.

I think everybody needs to find out who they are and who their, like, inner superhero is, or who you like to be. The world would be a better place if everyone was doing what the hell they wanted to do and being who they wanted to be.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

I will not be alone if I am my true self. Only by trading my true self for the companionship of another have I ever made myself alone. Because when I gave up my real self, I wound up resenting my "significant other" for "making me" do that-and it was this resentment that ate away at our relationship.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

I want to show my true self, not how I want to be seen by others.

The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.

Each day that you're moving toward your dreams without compromising who you are, you're winning

Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?

Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.

Success is doing the right thing for who you are.

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.