Zhuangzi Quotes

If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

Sometimes the world will tell you that you do what you do for a different reason than your reason. And if you let them convince you that that's your reason, it will become your reason, and you will lose track of yourself.

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

I never confused what I had with what I was.

Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe.

Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.

People don't know anything about themselves because they're all worried about everybody else.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

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

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

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.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am.

I know who I am and what I do.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

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

Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?'

One could get locked in by the Pulitzer, thinking, 'This is who I am.' Doors open with it, but doors in your mind could close.

Chloe is really just like an exaggerated aspect of myself.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

I mean, I am my own fantasy.