Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

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.

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

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

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

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.

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

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.

Please, please, PLEASE be yourself. If you catch yourself not, take a step back.

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

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.

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.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

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.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

Trying to give an individual a voice has always kind of been my mission in my life. As an actor, I've always seen that was something that needed to be done. You need to find that voice inside of you so that you can stand up and be who you really are.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.