Brenda Ueland Quotes

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

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

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

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

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

You're always just going to be who you are.

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

Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not.

It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.

Stop trying to figure out what is 'best' for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start going with what feels like Who You Are.

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.

It is fine to imitate a being you respect, but you cannot become that very being. Imitation is something one does to grow and develop. It is not something you use to deceive yourself. You absorb in yourself the things you think have some kind of value, but even if you try to find the meaning about your true self you will not find anything. Because those who cannot accept their real self always fail.

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true!

You have to be someone.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

I'm still very much Kate.

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

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

I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your true authentic self is at the core of that as you're playing all these different roles, and man, that self-awareness starts to come into effect. And you start to see who you really are.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.