Quotes about essential self

Kate Chopin

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

Beth Moore

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath.

Francis Picabia

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Pablo Picasso

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

J. K. Rowling

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Simone Weil

The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.

Deepak Chopra

The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.

Oskar Kokoschka

The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

Flannery O'Connor

... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.

Catherine Doherty

What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously.

Lorenzo Snow

Our religion should be incorporated within ourselves, a part of our being that cannot be laid off.

Mason Cooley

True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.

Sheena Iyengar

The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve away everything else.
Our understanding of identity is often similar: Beneath the many layers of shoulds and shouldn’ts that cover us, there lies a constant, single, true self that is just waiting to be discovered.

June Jordan

My heart is not peripheral to me.

Tom Ford

I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.

Kate Chopin

I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but I wouldnt give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.

Eckhart Tolle

When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace.
You could call it joy because that's what joy is: vibrantly alive peace. It is the joy of knowing yourself as the very life essence before life takes on form. That is the joy of Being - of being who you truly are.