James Dean Quotes

True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

The soul is the truth of who we are.

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

The spirit is the true self.

Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all the time, but did anybody actually know? Sometimes I'd pictured it like a pilot light burning inside a person--a drop of fire from the invisible inferno people called God. Or a squashy substance, like a piece of clay or dental mold, which collected the sum of a person's experiences--a million indentations of happiness, desperation, fear, all the small piercings of beauty we've ever known.

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

I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.

The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

They can give you all the pills on earth and do whatever - and you're still yourself.

We are only what we are in the dark; all the rest is reputation.

You can’t change the music of your soul.

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.

Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go

The real us is pure love, pure light

Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities.

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

Your personality is a tool of your soul.

The only thing you can lose is ... your connection to who-you-are.

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

Ultimately, we’re not the avatars we create. We’re not the pictures on the film stock. We are the light that shines through it. All else is just smoke and mirrors. Distracting, but not truly compelling.