Personas Quote by Dorothy Koomson

“My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Once you eliminate the persona that was created to survive. The real you will have permission to come forward, and enjoy the life that…

— Steven Cuoco

“This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the…

— Kandi Dougherty

“I also remember defining myself by the people and the things that I hated rather than what I liked, thinking that it was cooler…

— Hank Green

“Once again I was shamelessly allowing myself to be defined by another person.”

— Ginny Babcock Kinflicks

“I had allowed to settle into the core of who I am. I talked about myself in ways I would never let another person.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

“For so long, I gave in to my self-loathing. I refused to allow myself the simple pleasure of accepting who I am and how…

— Roxane Gay

“That you could loathe yourself for acting under duress and still crave the very things you'd done.”

— Kit Rocha

“I am grateful that I got kicked in the ass. That I had a taste of reality before I traveled too far and that…

— Alessandra Torre

“That was the danger of pretending to be someone else all the time. If you do it long enough, eventually you start to become…

— Tracy Rozzlynn

“He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.”

— Julie Anne Long

“I was not insecure. I was a perfectly normal combination of arrogant and narcissistic.”

— Dani Alexander