Quotes About Self

We're all performing for someone.

I think it's important for people to be themselves and express themselves through their makeup or their hair or their perfume or whatever it may be.

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I've got to give the market credit before I give myself credit.

I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you can choose to be.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.

As I get older, I'm sort of fascinated with the idea of somebody who could construct an entire persona for themselves - one that was really, in a lot of ways, fundamentally at odds with who they really were as a person.

I'm not a persona, and I'm not a character. I'm always the same person.

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.

Every single part of our persona, no matter how long we've rocked it, is a choice we make every day.

To carry a false persona is an extra burden. Who needs that?

I never manufactured my persona.

aujourd'hui encore, l'allemand, l'alsacien et le français se disputent dans ma tête et brouillent mon élocution ; aujourd'hui encore, je me déplace avec un dictionnaire allemand-français dans mes affaires.

Become what you are.

There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.

Sanskrit describes five layers of self, or mind: Physical, feeling, perception, intention, and consciousness.

T]he formless self is free from all suffering even as it compassionately 'takes on' the suffering of all.

Dogen maintains that self and other are ultimately interdependent; the self does not exist prior to, or outside of, the other; we only have the possibility of experiencing self or other through relationship.