Gustave Flaubert Quotes

The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.

You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

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.

If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.

The face is the soul of the body.

We can never see who someone really is underneath the skin.

We all have to wear social masks in our daily lives to get by.

What does true even mean when it comes to a face? Only souls are true, and when you spill them to the air they melt away.

I am not a glam woman - this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

All the pictures in magazines and all of that is fun but in the end it's all about your soul and who you are and have you connected with the people.

I wish they would see the real person in me. One day, they will know I'm not here for the show. My mind do shine. My heart is so kind. But that they can not see because all they see is the outside of me. Who I am, what I do is only the reaction I get from you.

The real self is who you are when you're at home, when you're comfortable, and the false self is what you're pretending - and the reason you pretend is because you want to create a character for the surroundings you're within.

The soul is the truth of who we are.

The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

The spirit is the true self.

The heart thinks of everything you can give, and the soul thinks of everything you are.

Style is the only thing you can't buy. It's not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It's something reflected from our soul to the outside world. An emotion.

People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.