True Identity Quotes

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

As I grow older, I feel like my authentic self has been able to shine through more and more, and people can see that.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

There is more than just words to define a person.

Only you know who you were born to be and you need to be free to be that person.

Don't support the phonies, SUPPORT THE REAL

I'm being myself when the camera is rolling.

Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

I do not believe that the real life of this nation is to be found either in great luxury hotels and the petty gossip of so-called fashionable suburbs, or in the officialdom of the organized masses. It is to be found in the homes of people who are nameless and unadvertised, and who, whatever their individual religious conviction or dogma, see in their children their greatest contribution to the immortality of their race.

Through death you find yourself, because you no longer identify with form. You realize you are not the form with which you had identified ­ neither the physical nor the psychological form of "me". That form goes. It dissolves and who you are beyond form emerges through the opening where that form was. One could almost say that every form of life obscures God.

I think that, for a lot of us, the closer we get to showing people who we really are, that's where we feel the most uncomfortable, the most vulnerable. But it's also where the healthiest growth comes from. Like when I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

You make your mark by being true to who you are and letting that be your staple.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.

I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.