Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

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

I've never, ever labeled myself.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

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

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

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

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'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's very intriguing.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.