Richard Paul Evans Quotes

Our deep desires define us, really.

We are what we think we are - not what we appear to be on the outside.

Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others.

Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

You gotta know what you are, who you are and how you want to be portrayed.

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.

Did you get so caught up in the preoccupancy of a relationship that you lost who you were or were busy in life or career that you, like Adam and Eve, got lost in the garden putting fig leaf after fig leaf title, relationship, this accolade, this saying over you that you forgot who you were and what's life's about? So getting back to the core of that and building life by design, that is authentic.

After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is. And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God.

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

Remember who you really are and be that.

When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.

I think when you're put into a completely different situation and environment, you really see who you are. You're not affected by what's around you. You are who you are.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

I define myself from a vision, from a point of view of life.

We get so swept up in sort of what the media tells us to care about and all these other influences that we really have to dig down deep and figure out what is it that we as human beings really care about and want for ourselves. When you figure that out, you see who you really are.

Don't shift because fashion has shifted. Don't move from the original ethic you had, the original reasons. They're part and parcel of you.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.