Eckhart Tolle Quotes

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I'm not what I make.

I know what my identity is.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure they're all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

If it took professional wrestling for people to recognize me as a person, then all the other endeavors I embark upon will explain me as a person, define me as a person, but wrestling will not define me.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I want people to understand why I'm not 'P1' or 'P2.'

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

What I do and who I am are two different things. And they always will be.

This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that.

I'm not super conservative, and I have no problem with people being risque or owning your sexuality or even putting it out there. I have a problem when it's all you are because you're not being fair to yourself; you have more depth than this.