Paulo Coelho Quotes

What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

...He is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been before

I tried to be someone else, but nothing seemed to change. I know now, this is who I really am inside. I've finally found myself, fighting for a chance. I know now, this is who I really am.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your personality falls away; your individuality, your individual arises. To have a personality is hypocrisy. To be an individual is your birthright.

Like an actor who transforms into the character that they're playing, you can transform into yourself.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Become who you are by learning who you are.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.