Bill Hicks Quotes

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

Who would you be if you didn't believe this lie?

We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.

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.

Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be!

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

The search for total knowledge starts from the Self and finds its fulfillment in coming back to the Self, finding that everything is the expression of the Self - everything is the expression of my own Self.

It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.

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

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

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

It's easy to forget who you are.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.