Persius Quotes

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.

I'm not what I make.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

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.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

Your real feelings are inside you.

And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.

We get so swept up in sort of what the media tells us to care about and all these other influences that we really have to dig down deep and figure out what is it that we as human beings really care about and want for ourselves. When you figure that out, you see who you really are.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.