Quotes by Authors - Page 71

Our concern must be to live while we're alive ... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham in which our selves are determined by the will of others in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us.
Nena O'Neil
Dress to please yourself.... Forget you are what you wear.... Wear what you are.
Elizabeth Hawkes
Follow what you love! Don't deign to ask what "they" are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests which change but what you are and what you love which will and should not change.
Georgie Anne Geyer
There are as many ways to live and grow as there are people. Our own ways are the only ways that should matter to us.
Evelyn Mandel
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.
Leo Buscaglia
I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Sally Field
I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
It is possible to be different and still be all right.
Anne Wilson Schaef
Any path is only a path and there is no affront to oneself or to others in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.
Carlos Castañeda
A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.
Robertson Davies
If I trim myself to suit others I will soon whittle myself away.
Anonymous
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
John Lancaster Spalding
With begging and scrambling we find very little but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.
Rabindranath Tagore
The moment that any life however good stifles you you may be sure it isn't your real life.
Arthur Christopher Benson
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
André Gide
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to keep your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house but you cannot build the house without them.
Constance Fenimore Woolson
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self
Michel de Montaigne
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
Thomas Paine
Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
Henry David Thoreau
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.
Angelo Patri
I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes economic pressure and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.
Naomi Wolf
Whatever you want in life other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Diane Sawyer
No matter how ill we may be nor how low we may have fallen we should not change identity with any other person.
Samuel Butler
I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.
Violette Leduc
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate As the voyage along thru life 'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose.
Marcia Wieder
I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Helen Keller
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
Sonia Johnson
The world may take your reputation from you but it cannot take your character.
Emma Dunham Kelley
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine Hepburn
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
Pearl Bailey
As you go along your road in life you will if you aim high enough also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem have courage still-and persevere.
Madeleine Albright
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men-and people in general.
Lorraine Hansbury
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that worked on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here no prettily drawn list of good intentions.
Joan Didion
True inward quietness ... is not vacancy but stability-the steadfastness of a single purpose.
Caroline Stephen
A rose is a rose is a rose.
Gertrude Stein
To have no set purpose in one's life is harlotry of the will.
Stephen McKenna
To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.
Joan L. Brannon
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading it vexes me to choose another guide.
Emily Brontë
Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjöld
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee
What one man does another fails to do what's fit for me may not be fit for you.
Anonymous
Nothing is good for everyone but only relatively to some people.
André Gide
Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work not yours.
Cynthia Ozick
In my clinical experience the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
Rollo May
I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself because it always changes me.
Anaïs Nin
The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.
Shirley Maclaine
Men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
David Riesman
The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
Peggy Fleming
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
Betty Friedan
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Amelia Earhart
Every man has his own destiny the only imperative is to follow it to accept it no matter where it leads him.
Henry Miller
There is a need to find and sing our own song to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.
Barbara Lazear Ascher
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
Richard Wright