Martha Beck Quotes

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

Be that self which one truly is.

...Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there.

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

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

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

True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

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

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.

Don't try to be me. No one but me can be me. But you can be you. Look inside yourself and get to know who the real you is. And then be that person. The best version of you.

I have always been me.

Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree." (Ellen Hopkins)

We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.

Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

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

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not care about other people's opinions. She taught me to be truthful. She taught me to be free. I began to live my life in love and complete acceptance. For the first time I had truly accepted myself.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

If you don't feel fabulous, you have deviated from the path of who-you-really-are.