Kate Chopin Quotes

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

Never imitate. The mind is an imitator, because imitation is very easy. To be someone is very difficult. To become someone is very easy - all that you need is to be a hypocrite, which is not much of a problem. Deep down you remain the same, but on the surface you go on painting yourself according to some image.

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Who would you be without your story?

You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.

It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

To get at the truth of your calling, you have to crack open that false self and see what lies within.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

You're always just going to be who you are.

I've had people say things to me like, 'Don't change.' I don't know how to be anything other than myself.

Many people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else.