Sydney J. Harris Quotes

Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.

Ask yourself, 'what's more important - being real and being myself, or becoming successful? And ask the question knowing that you never actually have to choose between being real and being successful. You simply have to choose between being realand striving to be successful. Get the difference?

Find out what you really like if you can. Find out what is really important to you. Then sing your song. You will have something to sing about and your whole heart will be in the singing.

Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.

The successful man is himself. To be successful, you've got to be honest with yourself.

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.

The goal isn't to be perfect, but to be authentic!

Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

Though the universe is delightfully complex, life, at its heart, is not particularly complicated. Live true to who you are and though it won't always be easy, you'll live well.

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.

It is fine to imitate a being you respect, but you cannot become that very being. Imitation is something one does to grow and develop. It is not something you use to deceive yourself. You absorb in yourself the things you think have some kind of value, but even if you try to find the meaning about your true self you will not find anything. Because those who cannot accept their real self always fail.

And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.

You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed - and the natural state of the mind is pure love.

I feel like you can be the best role model by being yourself.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

The world we knew as children is still buried within our minds. Our childlike self is the deepest level of our being. It is who we really are, and what is real doesn't go away.

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

There can be only one purpose for relationships-and for all of life: to be and to decide Who You Really Are.

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.

If you listen to your soul you will know what is "best" for you, because what is best for you is what is true for you.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.