e. e. cummings Quotes

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

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.

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.

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.

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

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'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

I can't be passionate about something or really give myself to something if I don't know it's a hundred percent authentic to who I am.

I didn't get jobs because when I went into the audition, I tried to be somebody else. I had to realize, what I can actually bring to the table is unique. No one else has experienced what I've experienced; no one else has walked in my shoes.

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.

You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

It's so easy and comfortable to lie to yourself. Success is to become who you are. I think Hollywood thinks in a totally different way. But I think that as a human being, and not only an actress, that's really how you lead a successful life.

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

The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

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.

I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be!

When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.

If you're getting your guidance about who you are and what to do with your life only from the external world, then by definition you'll be led away from your authentic truth. Your authentic truth isn't in the material world. It's counterintuitive, but you have more power in the world when you know you're not of it.

Whatever mistake you have made about who you are is temporary. Your true identity has remained untouched. You have never sinned against it or affected it in any way except to lose touch with it.