Rose Wilder Lane Quotes

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.

The real man is the one Unit Existence.

I always made up my own acts; built them out of my knowledge and observation of real life. I'd had wonderful opportunities to study people; and every time I went out on the stage I tried to show the audience some bit of true human nature.

Things that are real are given and received in silence.

The ego does not, cannot live in the present, because the present is real and the ego is false - they never meet.

It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself.

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

I just like a good, honest personality. I like a real person, not somebody who is pretending to be something that they're not. That really annoys me.

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.

Saturday was 90 minutes when people would judge whether we were the real deal

Sometimes just watching a person doing the things they would only do at home lets you know who they really are.

And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.

A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.

Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.

Be true to yourself. If you follow that principle, a lot of decisions are actually pretty easy.

I would say natural is the best way to describe the real me. I'm not always going out or dressed up like I am on the red carpet. On a normal day, I wear normal clothes and wear little to no make-up. I'm always a bit girly, though.

Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes.

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

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

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

I love being able to stay real to the world.

I have met Mariah before and she's really cool and so funny. Everyone has been given the wrong impression of her, and maybe it is her doing. But you have to remember that celebrities are always in the spotlight and are sometimes forced to conduct themselves in a different way than they normally do. That's how it is in the business. I have met artists who are real divas, but Mariah Carey is not one of them. She is a very sweet person, and what nobody sees off camera is the real person she is on the inside.