William Butler Yeats 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.

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world.

With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

In my house, when I don't bring any makeup, when wearing comfortable clothes and when I'm playing with my kids, that's the moment where I feel the most beautiful.

Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity.

I feel most beautiful at night, when I take my makeup off and it's just me.

I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.

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

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

For me, it's about not being too aware of what you look like because if you are, you're trying too hard and I don't think that actually makes you look good... I've known from very early on that I don't look perfect.

I'm not what I make.

Beauty is the idea of who you truly are.

I feel like being true to yourself is always going to keep you humble; it's always going to make you remember who you are.

You are who you are, why should you deny your past?

We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us.

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)

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

I want to show my true self, not how I want to be seen by others.

How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?

But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.