Inner Selves Quotes

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.

Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.

Everybody has many people inside of them. I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want.

She didn't know that there was more of me, she'd have to learn to love all four of me.

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

For almost every character I've played in the 43 years I've been working as a professional actor, I've found parts of myself. We are all bipolar in the tiniest essence of what it is. We are all multiple personalities, in a sense, and to be healthy mentally, I think, learning what those multiple personalities are and inviting them in your life is really important.

Damita Jo. Jo. That's my middle name. It's let in about the different characters that live within me. They say we have 200 characters that we portray with different people.

We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.

Writing has certainly helped me explore about 20,000 versions of my authentic self. I suppose that's what most writers discover if they write long enough: there are a lot of selves roaming around in there.

I have three alter egos.

An actor gives voice to the many multitudes that we all contain. That's why we love the movies, why we love TV shows: we watch different people portray an aspect of ourselves, maybe even one we don't like.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like.

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.

They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.

We all have names we don't know about.

I think we all have a lot of different personas inside of ourselves. What happens in life is that most people get caught up in presenting one persona that they feel safest in.

The disowned parts of ourselves are what get in the way of us having the relationships we long for, the careers we don't know how to create, and the goals we want to achieve. It is by getting in touch with ALL the parts of ourselves - by having a gentle dialogue with all the "selves" we have inside - that we integrate them into a more comfortable, peaceful way of being with ourselves.

They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.

For me, everyone has many personas.