Richard Bach Quotes

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose. An unguarded moment, stripped of artifice, when one forgets to fool even oneself.

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

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

Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.

But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

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.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

We all wait for a mirror to show us who we are, to validate us. When we hear something about ourselves that we have never heard before, it feels like a blessing, and it gives power.

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

I'm not what I make.

There is your persona and then there's the real you. I was living inside my persona too much.

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.

There was no image of the other biological half of myself. And as an artists, as a - as an - as a portraitist, the look of who you are was radically important to me.

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?

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.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.