C. S. Lewis Quotes

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.

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.

You know, most people really don't know me.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

I don't have a lot of shame. That doesn't mean I can't feel bad about the way someone reacts to me or about something I read about myself online. But I don't have a lot of guilt, no. I've always been this way. I'm missing a chip.

I connected to this idea of faith and spirituality and religion and Christianity being a very strong crux of who I am at the core and how a lot of what we think and believe is based around our spiritual beliefs.

In the beginning of 'Jersey Shore,' for sure, that was the real Mike. That's the Mike that I know, that's the Mike I love. And that's the Mike I strive to be every day.

Life's harsh. You can't escape what you are and what you project.

We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

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

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

Every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled.

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.

A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.

Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness.

It warms my heart, no doubt, to inspire people. In reality, people see in others what they want to see in themselves.

No one believes that they're a bad person at the end of the day.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.