Quotes About Self

All pain is the result of resistance to the natural self.

A path is not something you're on. A path is what you are.

I am shifting rivermist, not to be trusted.I do not ask anything extraordinary of myself.I like a nap after dinnerand to see the seasons come round in good order.

The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.

Every action makes you a fragmentary existence. I hold on to my nature as an entirety only by refusing to act--or at least by denying the superiority of time, which is reserved for action.

I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.

So let it out and let it in Hey Jude, begin You're waiting for someone to perform with And don't you know that it's just you Hey Jude, you'll do

My work is a means of discovery – about the world, about history, about myself!

When I am doing a fictional show, I become someone else. Reality shows keep you close to who you really are.

In reality shows, you have to perform once and prove yourself, and after that, it is a process to prove yourself every day.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

For a while, I really wasn't fussed about having a public profile. I have come to the realization that I am a lot more comfortable with it than I was.

I just go anywhere by myself. I don't even realize how big I am.

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?

When I read that nobody should ever feel ashamed to be alone or to be in a crowd, I realized that I often felt ashamed of both of those things.

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

I didn't know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I'll be all right.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

People think I'm a freak or something, but I'm actually a really normal guy.

A man really determines himself by what he does.

I'm much too egotistical to move outside the acting realm.