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I believe in (the American) people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic things happen. I think there's evil in the world. But I think that at the end of the day, if we work hard, and if we're true to those things in us that feel true and feel right, that, the world gets a little better each time. That's what this presidency is trying to be about. And I see that in the young people i work with. This is not just drama-obama. This is what I really believe. ~ Barack Obama
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Barack Obama
Just staying true to yourself and staying true to your passion. Following your gut. ~ Brandy Norwood
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Brandy Norwood
Always stay true to yourself. Some people will like it, some people won't. Life goes on. ~ Carmelo Anthony
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Carmelo Anthony
Regardless of others' reactions, do your best to stay true to yourself. Make the choices that allow you to look in the mirror and feel good about the person gazing back at you. ~ Steve Pavlina
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Steve Pavlina
Usually it seems like either you sacrifice something and a lot of people will pay attention, or you stay true to yourself and appeal to a smaller group of people, but now we've managed to do what we felt was the right thing to do in our heart and had it reach a wide audience. It feels very rare. ~ Jack Antonoff
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Jack Antonoff
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity. ~ Barbra Streisand
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Barbra Streisand
You have to be 100 percent comfortable with yourself and who you are. You'll have unflattering pictures posted on the Internet for all to see, so you have to be able to handle yourself and stay true to yourself. ~ Katherine Webb
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Katherine Webb
Just stay true to yourself and true to wut you believe. ~ Joel Madden
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Joel Madden
Say what you mean and mean what you say. Don't be afraid to stand firm on the decisions that you make. Trust yourself. Believe in your instincts. Do what works best for YOU. Stay true to yourself and be good to yourself. Allow every decision that you make to empower, enrich, and add value to your life! ~ Stephanie Lahart
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Stephanie Lahart
You always have to stay true to yourself. ~ Aerin Lauder
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Aerin Lauder
You have to maintain who you are as a person and stay true to yourself - that's my biggest moral as a human being, as well as a very self-deprecating sense of humor. ~ Josh Hutcherson
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Josh Hutcherson
Because if you stay true to yourself and live your life boldly, someday you might be able to meet someone who will want to eat takoyaki with you more than anyone else. ~ Natsuki Takaya
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Natsuki Takaya
I guess I would say: above anything else, stay true to yourself. Whether that means for you that you like to have blue hair, or you don't like to drink, or you are attracted to the same sex, or you want to remove yourself from Facebook, or you've got 3 different kids from 3 different dads but you know you're a really good mom, or you cry for a week because your turtle died. Whatever your truth is, stay true to yourself. But be a good person while you're at it. ~ Gillian Anderson
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Gillian Anderson
Anything in the entertainment business, there's sharks coming around. It's about staying true to yourself and making sure that, when you look in the mirror, you're happy with what you see. ~ O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
Stay True To Yourself quotes by O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
Time is an amazing equalizer. I think if you stay true to yourself and keep moving forward, things come around. ~ Demi Moore
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Demi Moore
Always stay true to yourself. Write with how you feel and are most comfortable with, not what the trends dictate. ~ M.T. Magee
Stay True To Yourself quotes by M.T. Magee
I feel more confident with the posh mums. I've found someone who gets me. It's OK that I don't fit in here, I fit in somewhere else, so I can relax. I'm not mad, I'm not wrong, I'm just not in the right environment. ~ Viv Albertine
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Viv Albertine
When you stay true to yourself, you will never regret the choices that you make. Just know in your heart that you are moving in the right direction. Choosing to live your life based on others' expectations will only hurt your development. It's all about having confidence in yourself and maintaining a positive environment where you can continually grow. ~ Arik Hoover
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Arik Hoover
If I can believe believe that the heavens have blessed me with a tiger-spirited daughter, then how can I doubt the existence of a Dragon Musado?" he said.

Kira didn't know how to react to her father's words.

"I believe that one person can change the world. Whether he is the Musado or a girl with a tiger spirit. The monks teach that we mere mortals cannot question fate. But I say that we control destiny by our every action. Our power lies in the choices we make." Her father placed his warm hand on her cheek. "In the choices you make. Remember, stay true to yourself and do what your heart tells you is right, and not what is easy. ~ Ellen Oh
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Ellen Oh
It's really important to do everything that you possibly can to stay true to yourself. ~ David Archuleta
Stay True To Yourself quotes by David Archuleta
What's important is that you stay true to yourself. Because when you enter the real world, the most valuable thing you can bring is all your you-ness. The world doesn't need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers - the world needs more you. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise. ~ Bo Burnham
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Bo Burnham
The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that. ~ Ellen DeGeneres
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Ellen DeGeneres
Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that. ~ Ellen DeGeneres
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Ellen DeGeneres
In this life, no matter what you do-you will never be able to satisfy everyone. So stay true to yourself and do you. Trying to please others, you will only end up angry and dissatisfied with life. ~ Redd
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Redd
In a world muddled with madness, I made a conscious effort to stay sane. ~ Angela Colleen Prendergast
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Angela Colleen Prendergast
It's important to stay true to yourself. You have to know your weaknesses and recruit support when and where you need it. ~ Jillian Michaels
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Jillian Michaels
The world isn't fair. And no matter how good and decent you are, no matter how much you give to others, someone is always going to hate you for no other reason than the fact that you breathe. You can't help that. You can't change people or their minds once they've allowed them to get twisted by hatred. But you can change how you deal with them. Never back down, but walk away when you can, fight when you must. Whatever you do don't give them the power to hurt you. Don't let them inside you. They're not worth it. Live your life for yourself. Stay true to yourself and if they can't see the beauty that is you, it's their loss. Let the bitterness take them to their graves. Spend your time on what matters most. Being you and appreciating the people who see you for who and what you are. The people who love you, and the ones that you love. They are all that matter. Let the rest go to hell. - Drux Cruel ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate. ~ Estella Warren
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Estella Warren
You really have to stay true to yourself, as cheesy as that sounds. And you cannot take no for an answer, and you have to dream big. I think that's the greatest thing my family ever taught me: if you're going to dream, you have to dream so big. ~ Ksenia Solo
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Ksenia Solo
Do the right thing, put up with unfairness, selfishness, stay true to yourself ... one day it all works out. ~ Abraham Verghese
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Abraham Verghese
Stay real, work hard, and be a Man! ~ Avijeet Das
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Avijeet Das
Establish who you are, and don't let anybody dress you up or change the way you are, and stay true to yourself. ~ Lynn Anderson
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Lynn Anderson
Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path. ~ Phillip Sweet
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Phillip Sweet
Stay true to yourself because a lot of times women get so wrapped up in doing for a man that we forget to focus on us. A lot of times that is unattractive. They love us because we are independent and focused on the things that make us happy. Because when they see you happy, their happy! ~ Gabrielle Dennis
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Gabrielle Dennis
Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals. ~ Michelle Obama
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Michelle Obama
You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change ~ Snoop Dogg
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Snoop Dogg
At the end of the day, stay morally clear to yourself. ~ Debasish Mridha
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Debasish Mridha
Whatever the consequences of staying true to yourself, they're much less than the consequences of selling your soul. ~ Carly Fiorina
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Carly Fiorina
I've learned that you have to stay true to yourself from all the amazing people I've had the opportunity to work with thus far. You have to stay true to yourself and don't be afraid even though people may say what you're doing isn't cool or isn't right. I promise you, you will not regret it if you stay true to who you are and what you love to do because there is no other reason that I am up here today receiving this award. ~ Emma Stone
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Emma Stone
Don't make changes to suit others, stay true to yourself. ~ Steven Redhead
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Steven Redhead
I'm sure that there must have been times when you have read books or watched films and found yourself secretly wishing for the villain to win. Why? Isn't that against the rules by which our society lives? Why should you feel this way? It's simple, really; the villain is the true hero of these tales, not the well-intentioned moron who somehow foils their diabolical scheme. The villain get's all the best lines, has the best costumes, has unlimited power and wealth- why on earth would anyone not want to be the villain? ~ Mark Walden
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Mark Walden
One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself. ~ Bryant McGill
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Bryant McGill
I continue to marvel at the reluctancy of people to look into the mirror and see all the darkness that's within them: all the deceit, the dishonesty, the insincerity, the lack, the need, the want, the lies ... they would rather look upon the mural of themselves that they've painted on the wall, and stare at that inanimate portrait of beauty, all the while telling themselves that it is the mirror image of them! This is a falsity, this is unreal! It is only when you turn to the unveiled mirror and bravely face your light and your darkness at once, that you will be able to see the true image of you! How can you pull the thorns from your skin if you are too afraid to open your eyes and look at them? You must open your eyes first, look at the thorns where they are piercing your flesh, and only then can you pull them out! ~ C. JoyBell C.
Stay True To Yourself quotes by C. JoyBell C.
Be true to your love to be true to yourself. ~ Debasish Mridha
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Debasish Mridha
It is good to be skeptical, to ask "is this really true?," to take nothing at face value. It is not good to blind yourself to what you can see is true, useful, or beautiful because you are afraid to trust. ~ Mark David Chapman
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Mark David Chapman
They say that wisdom comes from suffering. This is not true. Wisdom comes from having unconditional empathy for all mankind. Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you. If you do not feel love for all mankind, nor see everyone around you as a valuable human and an extension of yourself, then you will never feel real empathy. And if you do not have empathy, then you will not gain, learn and remember valuable knowledge from your experiences, or those around you, so that you one day become wise. ~ Suzy Kassem
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Suzy Kassem
The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop. ~ Cassandra Clare
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Cassandra Clare
Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like. ~ Marie Lu
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Marie Lu
The struggle for true openness and intimacy is a lifelong struggle for all of us, gay and straight alike. And besides, a difficult life brings you to the core of yourself, where you learn what justice is and how it has to be fought for. ~ Paul Monette
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Paul Monette
Loving a person isn't a magical, sparkly passion. It's hard work. It's putting the other person before yourself. It's companionship and being able to trust and depend on each other. That loquacious true love everyone spouts about is really finding a partner who will go through the heartbreaks and joys of life with you. ~ K.M. Shea
Stay True To Yourself quotes by K.M. Shea
It's amazing how we push against things, things that in our depths we know we want, we know are good for us, yet we continue to deny ourselves with a conviction unmatched. Maybe we do it because we don't think we deserve that one true, good thing. Are we worthy? It's the most extraordinary thing, to embrace the life you never saw yourself living." -Harley LeBeau, The Boots My Mother Gave Me ~ Brooklyn James
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Brooklyn James
We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who are less fortunate. But really, true charity is much, much more. Real charity is not something you give away; it is something that you acquire and make a part of yourself. And when the virtue of charity becomes implanted in your heart, you are never the same again. ~ Marvin J. Ashton
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Marvin J. Ashton
God does not merely require our petitions but our selves, and no one who begins the hard, lifelong trek of prayer knows yet who they are. Nothing but prayer will ever reveal you to yourself, because only before God can you see and become your true self. To paraphrase something is to get the gist of it and make it accessible. Prayer is learning who you are before God and giving him your essence. Prayer means knowing yourself as well as God. ~ Timothy Keller
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Timothy Keller
[D]on't cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go ... Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90) ~ Stephen Levine
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Stephen Levine
Today remind yourself that nothing is too good to be true. Your great hopes can be realized. Your most wonderful dreams can come true. All that you really need, you can have. An incredible goodness is operating on your behalf. If you are living a paltry life, resolve to stop it today. Expect great things to happen. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Norman Vincent Peale
Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give. ~ Jasper Fforde
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Jasper Fforde
Beyond the shadows of our doubt lies an ocean of extraordinary possibilities; things that could have been or could be; if we had the faith to see them through. Our doubts betray and deflect us from our true selves and deprive us of our chances to love, to achieve, to trust, or to know what we're truly capable of…all because we confide in our fears rather than endeavor towards our rightful providences. ~Jason Versey ~ Jason Versey
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Jason Versey
True honesty is what you are willing to admit to yourself without judgement! ~ Pollyanna Darling
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Pollyanna Darling
If you have not confronted true horrors, understood evil, suffered hopelessness and despair, found faith, and made yourself completely accountable for your own choices, actions and outcomes, then I can guarantee that any acceptance you pretend to have will be as brittle and temporary as a snowball in the middle of summer. ~ Graeme Rodaughan
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Graeme Rodaughan
To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity. ~ Michel De Montaigne
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Michel De Montaigne
Accustom yourself to the belief that death is of no concern to us, since all good and evil lie in sensation and sensation ends with death. Therefore the true belief that death is nothing to us makes a mortal life happy, not by adding to it an infinite time, but by taking away the desire for immortality. For there is no reason why the man who is thoroughly assured that there is nothing to fear in death should find anything to fear in life. So, too, he is foolish who says that he fears death, not because it will be painful when it comes, but because the anticipation of it is painful; for that which is no burden when it is present gives pain to no purpose when it is anticipated. Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist. It is therefore nothing either to the living or to the dead since it is not present to the living, and the dead no longer are. ~ Epicurus
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Epicurus
In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality. ~ Simone De Beauvoir
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Simone De Beauvoir
No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos. ~ D.H. Lawrence
Stay True To Yourself quotes by D.H. Lawrence
When you think yours is the only true path you forever chain yourself to judging others and narrow the vision of God. The road to righteousness and arrogance is a parallel road that can intersect each other several times throughout a person's life. It's often hard to recognize one road from another. What makes them different is the road to righteousness is paved with the love of humanity. The road to arrogance is paved with the love of self. ~ Shannon L. Alder
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Shannon L. Alder
You try to tell yourself that you've been lucky, most incredibly lucky, and usually that works because it's true. Sometimes it doesn't work, that's all. Then you cry. ~ Stephen King
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Stephen King
Life does have its twists and turns, and that certainly is true. However, one can predict the future with some degree of accuracy based on one's own knowledge of past events. And rare events do occur , but it is their lack of repetition that makes them rare.
I cannot alter the past, but the future is very much in my hands
I find that memories, especially from one's childhood, very often do not live up to the realities
Does anyone truly understand females? the more I am in their company the less i know. Their behavior is the opposite of everything in the natural order and flies in the face of logic.
Oh, I can see you are enjoying yourself. You have my heart, and now you will toy with it
She did believe that two souls could come together, so that the one would know if something had happened to the other despite distance or war.
The only way to get through life's rough spots is to laugh whenever possible ~ Mary Lydon Simonsen
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Mary Lydon Simonsen
May there be great peace and happiness in your lives! May society become a better place and those that are hurting deep down inside feel great about themselves and to those that hate the world as well as everything still, fight that ball of bitterness that lives within you. The world may not care about you so you have to care about yourself and take care of yourself or go to places for asylum & serenity. Don't feel ashamed or make the world give you the impression because of negative stereotypes that you shouldn't because humans are about themselves and their personal issues. At the end of the day, who knows you better than yourself? Perhaps close friends? God? But may God be a God of peace for you. And if you don't have any true friends, remember one genuine friend is better than a thousand fake friends. ~ Krystal Volney
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Krystal Volney
Growing old is the price you pay for living. Growing up is optional.

Be true to yourself - don't let people turn you into something you're not. ~ Chris Mawbey
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Chris Mawbey
LOVING KINDNESS The first element of true love is loving kindness. The essence of loving kindness is being able to offer happiness. You can be the sunshine for another person. You can't offer happiness until you have it for yourself. So build a home inside by accepting yourself and learning to love and heal yourself. Learn how to practice mindfulness in such a way that you can create moments of happiness and joy for your own nourishment. Then you have something to offer the other person. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Thich Nhat Hanh
Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the whole subject, the true subject, stood just behind the one you found yourself contemplating. The trick, but it wasn't a trick, was to take up at once the thing you saw and the reason you saw it as well; to always bite off more than you could chew, and then chew it. If it were self-indulgence for him to cut and polish his semiprecious memories, and yet seem like danger, like a struggle he was unfit for, then self-indulgence was a potent force, he must examine it, he must reckon with it. ~ John Crowley
Stay True To Yourself quotes by John Crowley
When you don't hear others, you don't imagine them, they become unreal, and you are left in the wasteland of a world with only yourself in it, and that surely makes you starving, though you know not for what, if you have ceased to imagine others exist in any true deep way that matters. ~ Rebecca Solnit
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Rebecca Solnit
You are worthy of love, and success, and your dreams coming true. Never stop speaking, even when your voice begins to shake, okay? Never give up on yourself. You are important, you are loved, and your beautiful voice matters. ~ Brittainy C. Cherry
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Brittainy C. Cherry
Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the guide to your life only that which accords with your own reason and experience, after thorough investigation. Accept only that which contributes to the well-being of yourself and others. ~ Gautama Buddha
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Gautama Buddha
All we have are our words and our actions. They are what define us. And one without the other is no good. You need to utilize both to make true change. Within yourself. Internally and externally. ~ Noah Nichols
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Noah Nichols
He remembered hearing Karl tell James once that it was hard for people to ever know what they really looked like. Reflections in mirrors weren't accurate, Karl said, because when you stared at yourself in a mirror, you subconsciously composed your face in a way that wasn't your natural expression.

Marvin wondered it that was true when you were with strangers too. Maybe you only looked like your true self with the people you loved. And maybe that was a face you yourself hardly ever got to see… ~ Elise Broach
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Elise Broach
It made the kids at camp much more enthusiastic and cooperative when they had ego goals to fulfill, I'm sure, but ultimately that kind of motivation is destructive. Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. Now we're paying the price. When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it. And even if you do it's a hollow victory. In order to sustain victory you have to prove yourself again and again in some other way, and again and again and again, driven forever to fill a false image, haunted by the fear that the image is not true and someone will find out. That's never the way. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
True faith in God on the contrary awakens in you the mind of Christ, to reason yourself to the will and purposes of God. ~ Sunday Adelaja
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Sunday Adelaja
The truer you are to yourself, the greater your gifts will manifest themselves. ~ Tiffany L. Jackson
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Tiffany L. Jackson
But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong – but you are now a different shape, a different size. This sort of change - the change that occurs when you sit inside your own pain - it's revolutionary. When you let yourself die, there is suddenly one day: new life. You are Different. New. And no matter how hard you try, you simply cannot fit into your old life anymore. You are like a snake trying to fit into old, dead skin, or a butterfly trying to crawl back into the cocoon, or new wine trying to pour itself back into an old wineskin. This new you is equal parts undeniable and terrifying.

Because you just do not fit. And suddenly you know that. And you have become a woman who doesn't ignore her knowing. Who doesn't pretend she doesn't know. Because pretending makes you sick. And because you never promised yourself an easy life, but you did promise yourself a true one. You did promise – back when you were putting yourself back together – that you'd never betray you again. ~ Glennon Doyle Melton
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Glennon Doyle Melton
When you inflict suffering on yourself in the name of some story, it give you a choice: 'Either the story is true, or I am a gullible fool.' When you inflict suffering on others, you are also given a choice: 'Either the story is true, or I am a cruel villain.' And just as we don't want to admit we are fools, we also don't want to admit we are villains, so we prefer to believe that the story is true. ~ Yuval Noah Harari
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Yuval Noah Harari
Nonconformity in dating is all about being authentic and true to yourself. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Amy Leigh Mercree
Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Gwyneth Paltrow
Will you dare to say so?–Have you never erred?–Have you never felt one impure sensation?–Have you never indulged a transient feeling of hatred, or malice, or revenge?–Have you never forgot to do the good you ought to do,–or remembered to do the evil you ought not to have done?–Have you never in trade overreached a dealer, or banquetted on the spoils of your starving debtor?–Have you never, as you went to your daily devotions, cursed from your heart the wanderings of your heretical brethren,–and while you dipped your fingers in the holy water, hoped that every drop that touched your pores, would be visited on them in drops of brimstone and sulphur?–Have you never, as you beheld the famished, illiterate, degraded populace of your country, exulted in the wretched and temporary superiority your wealth has given you,–and felt that the wheels of your carriage would not roll less smoothly if the way was paved with the heads of your countrymen? Orthodox Catholic–old Christian–as you boast yourself to be,–is not this true?–and dare you say you have not been an agent of Satan? I tell you, whenever you indulge one brutal passion, one sordid desire, one impure imagination–whenever you uttered one word that wrung the heart, or embittered the spirit of your fellow-creature–whenever you made that hour pass in pain to whose flight you might have lent wings of down–whenever you have seen the tear, which your hand might have wiped away, fall uncaught, or forced it from an eye which would have ~ Charles Robert Maturin
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Charles Robert Maturin
The true goal of all spiritual practices is to keep yourself fooled, to maintain the self-deception, to see what's not and not see what is. That's why the stated goals are always unverifiable and ill-defined: its not about attaining them, its about pursuing them. Who wants to wake up? When we have a little itch that threatens to awaken us in the night, we want to scratch the itch and make it go away. not let it evict us from our slumbers. Same thing here. In this sense. spiritual practice - meditation. for instance - is one hundred percent effective. If a spiritual practice satisfies your urge to do something spiritual. if it makes you think you're making progress. if it scratches your itch without disturbing your slumber, then it's doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing. ~ Jed McKenna
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Jed McKenna
There is a very dark and painful side to life, but that is natural. People in our culture think they should never be unhappy. They think that being unhappy is unnatural. They try to make it go away. They take pills or they go to therapy to "fix" themselves. They blame themselves or others for their suffering. We need to understand that sadness is as much a part of life as joy. It would be easy just to get bitter and cold while focusing on the dark side, but there is also an amazing, wonderful side of life. If you look for it, there is true magic all around us. Maybe that sounds trite to the hardened, self-protective modern ego, but there is magiv in this miraculous life. If you open yourself up, you do make yourself vulnerable to pain but the deeper the pain you experience, the deeper joy you have. ~ Mark Ryden
Stay True To Yourself quotes by Mark Ryden
Be confident in who you are, regardless of what you don't have. The more confident you are, the more open you become to share your fears and challenges with your partner. ~ E'yen A. Gardner
Stay True To Yourself quotes by E'yen A. Gardner
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