Quotes about Persona

Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister.

Under all those smiles, jokes and laughs is a whole different person...

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.

My whole life is a theater piece.

Saint abroad, and a devil at home.

A saint abroad, and a devil at home.

These Americans, under their forthcoming manner, their surface-gush, as some might call it, have an odd reticence about what goes on underneath.

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

what is prized by human beings is an abomination in the sight of God" (Luke 16:14—15). Here we see Jesus as an astute psychologist, who recognizes and exposes things that we only now have names for: status seeking, false motives, creation of persona, cultivating a self-image, and denial.

There is nothing wrong with or bad about your False Self; it's simply "the identity you created for yourself

It isn't the whiskey they choose, it's the image.

I think that's one of the first things you'd say if you met me: that I am just nice and smiley. And that's how I might appear when I'm not competing. But I'm totally different when it comes to sport. It's just something that seems to be within me. It's not external or visual. But it's within me.