Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

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.

I see people as being what their personality is at the moment of expression.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful. But it's the intention of the work that's changed. I have fans now. I have a new purpose: to remind them that I am one of them, that we are one another. My consciousness has changed.

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

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.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

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.

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.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

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.

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

I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.

I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.