Ted Dekker Quotes

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

With each thing that you do, all the fears in life and safeguards block out, or obscure, who you truly are. I think that just a glimpse of the person ever comes through in most material.

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

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather

Your true image is not something to get; it is a reality to discover.

No one knows who the real me is, so I can be a hundred different kinds of me.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

I'm not what I make.

It is hard to find the soul of Mick Jagger. It is very hidden. I think his true personality has receded so far behind the facade that he can no longer find the real person himself.

I play roles, but when I'm off stage, I always try to be myself.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

I ran out of any type of persona. I just had to be me.

Before, I had an idea of what I thought I needed to be, and I'm realizing more and more that being yourself is the best thing.