personality...

"What we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true self at all but the loss of it." 

"Not the world, not what's outside of us, but what we hold inside traps us. We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world." (Gabor Mate)

"For there is nothing lost but may be found, if sought." (Edmund Spenser)

"Be a lamp onto yourselves." (Buddha)