Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

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

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.

One of my problems is to find the self.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

I discovered myself!

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.

My whole life has been about figuring out the balance between knowing who I am and being who I am and accepting that people will come to me with all sorts of preconceptions.

My view is that you have to deal with who you are. It's hard work, in a way, but somebody has to do it.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.

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.