Virginia Woolf Quotes

And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm told that I'm supposed to feel.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

One thing that I've learned about myself is I have to trust what I see. And that maybe sounds silly, but there's things that I feel or see during a game that, you know, I used to explain it as I have an angel on one shoulder that's telling me to run the play and the devil on the other shoulder that's telling me really what I should do.

They can give you all the pills on earth and do whatever - and you're still yourself.

You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.

You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.

Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call “I” behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves. When, therefore, we find ourselves in a difficult situation to which there is no solution, he can sometimes kindle a light that radically alters our attitude - the very attitude that led us into the difficult situation.

If you are really true to yourself and really follow your intuition in the most rigorous way, there is a moment that becomes universal, that reaches everybody. That’s the real magic of Björk-she teaches us the courage to be ourselves.

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

The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!"

We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.

Being Open to the Guidance of your Own True Nature will Free Others to Do the Same

When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go.

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am completely filled with the thought of you. Don't lay broken glass on my path I will crush it into dust. I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand, reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light. Rumi - "Hidden Music

After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is. And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God.

People who know me, know who I am.

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.

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

When you realize no one else on this earth can be like you... that no other soul may know the beauty, sorrow, light and darkness you alone are given to see... then you will, at last, be the fearless individual your Heart of hearts has called you to be.