Authentic Self Quotes

These authentic self quotes give focus and shed light on the concept of authenticity.

As each person embarks on their own unique journey towards their authentic self there are common factors which provide radiance and direction for the path.

It’s always helpful to refer to the strength of others who have made the journey before us for a variety of reasons.

First, so that we can know we are never alone.

Second, because we each have a meaningful contribution to make.

Third, because the search for authenticity and meaning is as old as man.

Because there have been so many shining their light on this same pathway, it is always helpful for us to shelter under their wisdom.

Authentic Self Quotes

This quote, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is probably the most well known and is usually given only as the first sentence.

This above all:
To thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

~ Hamlet, Shakespeare

Our life is what our thoughts make it

~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

We would rather be ruined than changed.
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the present
And let our illusions die

~ W.H.Auden, The Age of Anxiety

The chief cause of human error is to be found in prejudices picked up in childhood

~ Descartes

The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It's the part of you that already cares, that is already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle.

~ Andrew Cohen

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

~ Carl Jung

Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence

~ Gary Zukav

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you're supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

~ Dr. Phil

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are

~ Theodore Roosevelt

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

~ M. Scott Peck

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

~ Dr. Robert Anthony

Your experiences are not limited to what you have created in the past

~ Gary Zukav

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