“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.” ― ram dass

“Now that we frame our experiences through the lens of external presentation, it’s much harder to figure out what we actually want as opposed to how we’d like to appear … This puts us at risk of potentially fragmenting our identities. We lose sight of what we actually feel and instead start to view ourselves from an outside perspective.”