Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

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.

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is. And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

When we strip away the clothes, the jewelry, that's who we really are. I walk around naked in my house.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

We are what we think we are - not what we appear to be on the outside.

There's the Draymond Green you see out on the floor. But that's not me. I mean, it is, but there's more. People see the fiery guy, the competitive guy, the trash talk and everything. But they don't see the love and compassion. They don't see the person. They don't see the real me, who values his friends and puts people first.

You're not a combination of all your labels. You just are.

Beauty is the idea of who you truly are.

Your self is sacred; be true to it.

We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.

The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

I want to show my true self, not how I want to be seen by others.

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

Your character is who you really are.

Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I tailor it, I adapt, I try to provide an outline that can, in some way, correlate to the outline that people understand me to have -- that, I suppose, I actually have, at this point. But who I am in my head, very few people really get to see that. Almost none. It's the most precious gift I can give, to bring her out of hiding.

We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.