It's going to be very interesting to see somebody playing me.

I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.

In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create as it were a new picture a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest for them we in a strange sense wish...

Which is what it all comes down to, I suppose – how you're selling. Welcome to the twenty-first century, where the only opinion of you that matters is the one that isn't your own. Rate My Tits. Rate...

I never thought to ascribe my mother's emotional and physical exhaustion to the lack of a husband and father; rather, I ascribed it to my existence. In other words, I grew up learning the exact...

Mom smiled and brushed my hair away from my face. You can call yourself whatever you want. Okay. Sophie Awesome Sparkle - Princess it is.

And you… do you know what you are? Stupid? Beautiful, he says, his face turning red.

Being normal? I have never had this experience.

For those who were born lovers, falling in love is neither an option nor a decision. it is a matter of existence.

This singularity of meaning - - I was my face, I was ugliness - - though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from which to lift off, the one...

She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing; the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love, and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.

That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your...

A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different side of himself to each of these different groups. - WILLIAM JAMES

He always tried to be different, even when it didn't matter. It was as if he acted instead of living.

Sociologists have a theory of the looking - glass self. You become what the most important person in your life {wife, father, boss, etc.} thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed...

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia – forgetting our new, true, real identity. As a believer, I am someone who has been delivered from the dominion...

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

Sam's just dealing with some issues. He recently came to the realization that he's a twenty - year - old virgin prude.

On page 145, I defined belonging as the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. One of the biggest surprises in this research was learning that fitting in and belonging are not the...

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a...

Boys are good at personas. There are a certain number that you can get at the drugstore, like costumes before Halloween. Being cool is pretending that you're not afraid of anything. But everybody is...

To be nobody - but - yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop...

Personality and personal identity are in some ways like coordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships.

She said it seemed like the only choices offered were to want to be what other people were, or to be what other people wanted you to be.

Petra turned to her. Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now! Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to...

But that was another Mildred so deep inside this one, and so bothered, really bothered, that the two women had never met.

You know, if you pretend not to be who you really are, you can end up with the wrong job, the wrong friends, God knows what else. Not your own life.

Not at all. It's why people come. They say it's about looking smart, or beautiful, or professional, but it's not. Gray-haired ladies try to recapture their former brunette. Brunettes want to go blond....

I don't want to be defined by this.