Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.

We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out.

Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

We'll become in our lives whoever the people we love the most say we are.

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.

Your capability is constant, but how much of it you use depends upon the identity you have for yourself.

Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.

If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were.

We change our opinions of ourselves so often. What the outside world thinks is only a small part of our image.

If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.

Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

We are what we believe we are.

We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.

You still have only one self and one identity. However, self, identity and personality are not things, they are not objects, and they certainly are not rigid. Instead, they are biological processes built within the brain from numerous interactive components, step by step, over a period of time.