Thomas Merton Quotes

I'm thankful that when I go to bed at night, that I have been myself that day. And, I have been myself all the days before that.

If I wasn't true to myself, I couldn't live with myself.

I'm crap at pretending to be something I'm not when I'm in my real life.

2020 for me is a really big year of realness and authenticity and just being who I am.

I do my best to be true to who I am.

To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

I want to be true to who I am.

To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.

It's ok not to be ok. Just be true to who you are.

The key to success is to be true to who you really are.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

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.

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

I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.

I'm not trying to be something I ain't. That's right. I'm me.

You can't really go wrong as long as you're true to yourself.

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?