Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

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

Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree." (Ellen Hopkins)

It's so easy and comfortable to lie to yourself. Success is to become who you are. I think Hollywood thinks in a totally different way. But I think that as a human being, and not only an actress, that's really how you lead a successful life.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.