Francois Rabelais Quotes

In my business, if you look good, no one is going to be checking up on whether you work out. So it's up to me.

If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Acting and the navy seem to balance each other out - I've not surrendered over to the complete process of the navy, nor have I surrendered to the ego-driven process of acting.

I don't think people know me at all. At the end of the day, if you see me in sequins and glitter out at a club, you might think that's all there is. But, you know, it's just glitter. My friends who I've known since I was 17 - they know who I am.

The secret is to success sincerity. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

Be a player; don't play yourself. And don't play basketball. That's not your sport, Jeb Bush.

If you want to be great in what you're doing, you really need to limit yourself, so I consider my life as the life of a monk.

If you teach a child that appearance doesn't matter, what will be the next thing that child asserts her individuality over? Turning up on time? Turning up at all?

You are what you pretend to be.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video

Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

Self dedication is a spiritual experience.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.

Drag threatens people because it exposes and mocks identity. Because most people believe that they are what it says they are on their driver's license. But the truth is we are all born naked, and the rest is drag.

It is fine to imitate a being you respect, but you cannot become that very being. Imitation is something one does to grow and develop. It is not something you use to deceive yourself. You absorb in yourself the things you think have some kind of value, but even if you try to find the meaning about your true self you will not find anything. Because those who cannot accept their real self always fail.

Choose one meditation and then put all your effort in it. That effort has to be very regular because will is created only out of regularity. It has to be very persistent and a continuity has to be maintained. Even to miss for one day is to destroy much - and at least one hour every day has to be given to it.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.