Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.

Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.

Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

You want to make decisions that are meaningful to you, and that are going to continue to enhance you being who you really are and what your message to the world is, and everybody has one. The real important thing is to know what that message is and how you want to carry that forward.

The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

Certainly take the advice of others but always, always be yourself.

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

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

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.