John Searles Quotes

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change.

One of the beautiful things about Tyler Durden in 'Fight Club' is that he seems to understand the implicit vanity and self-absorption that comes with the desire to improve oneself.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

Can't get away from your own self.

I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.

One of the other reasons for writing this book [My Beloved World] was to hold on to the person you first met. More of the world knows about me now and follows me in a way that never happened before. I didn't want me, the inside of me, to change. Because I liked Sonia, the Sonia who has been. So another reason for writing the book was to hold on to that - whatever the best in Sonia was, to try to capture it.

I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Everybody has a lot of darkness in them because without that you're not a whole person.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

I can act like a boy as much as I want, but when I wake up in the morning, I'm still a woman.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.

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.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.