Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

I wish they would see the real person in me. One day, they will know I'm not here for the show. My mind do shine. My heart is so kind. But that they can not see because all they see is the outside of me. Who I am, what I do is only the reaction I get from you.

We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.

You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.

There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?"

I may look fake but I'm real where it counts.

Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

Love is the part of us that is real.

Keep the remembrance of your real nature alive, even while working, and avoid haste which causes you to forget. Be deliberate. Practice meditation to still the mind and cause it to become aware of its true relationship to the Self which supports it. Do not imagine that it is you who are doing the work. Think that is the underlying current which is doing it. Identify yourself with the current.

The real us is pure love, pure light

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.

Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get below his animal nature, habits, customs, affections, daily life, and sometimes go away down into the heart of the man, before you know what is really in him. But when you get into the last core of these concentric rings of personality you find a sense of the infinite-a consciousness of immortality linked to something higher and better.

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair - look at what's really there.

I just like a good, honest personality. I like a real person, not somebody who is pretending to be something that they're not. That really annoys me.

The real self is who you are when you're at home, when you're comfortable, and the false self is what you're pretending - and the reason you pretend is because you want to create a character for the surroundings you're within.

The Real You isn't damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe.

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.