Core Self Quotes

Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued belief in them.

What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

Absolutely, I'll always be a dancer.

Remember who you really are and be that.

Inner resilience and the ability to bounce back are personal qualities. ... Align yourself with someone who has this kind of resilience so that your own can be strengthened. Find another oak to weather the storm with you. Anyone who is in touch with his or her core self will always respond.

Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.

It is by that which cannot be taken away that we can measure ourselves.

Never forget the essence of your spark!

I have to stay true to myself.

When you're watching a movie and find yourself getting emotional, it's because you're bringing something personal to the images. It's the same thing with acting. You're bringing the essence of your core emotional being to that moment.

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

I think I've been quite lucky in that I haven't had to make too many changes to myself. Obviously, there have been adaptations and things that I've altered, but I haven't changed completely. I've stayed myself.

I did not know that my entire personality, my entire being, could be discarded as the byproduct of my anatomy. What if I really am just someone with a large prefrontal cortex...and nothing more?

I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.

You can't help but change a little bit, but on the inside I'm still completely the same person.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

We get older, and we get more wrinkles, but fundamentally, we stay the same... You have the same fears and doubts and concerns and dreams and passions and all those kinds of things, so I feel like you don't change as much as you think you do.

The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.

When you're little, every experience writes on the canvas of who you are.