Persona Quotes

The outfit, tight in places, and loose in some, says as much in the buttons as it does in cuffs.

Kristen Henderson

I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” - Hannah More

Karen Swallow Prior

Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has formed itself in the heads of those around them and has been communicated to them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Be sure that whatever you are is you.

Theodore Roethke

What does this wildish intuition do for women? Like the wolf, intuition has claws that pry things open and pin things down, it has eyes that can through the shields of persona, it has ears that hear beyond the range of mundane human hearing. With these formidable psychic tools a woman takes on a shrewd and even precognitive animal consciousness, one that deepens her femininity and sharpens her ability to move confidently in the outer world.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana