115 quotes
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”
— James Clear
“You are the sky everything else is just the weather”
— Pema Chodron
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”
— Heraclitus
“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”
— Parker Palmer
“Life is not about finding yourself life is about creating yourself”
— George Bernard Shaw
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
— Epictetus
“Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself.”
— Baruch Spinoza
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“I am not sure that I exist actually I am all the writers that I have read all the people that I have met all the women that I have loved”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
— Alan Watts
“Do not wait until you know who you are to get started”
— Austin Kleon
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“I am large, I contain multitudes.”
— Walt Whitman
“Keep your identity small.”
— Paul Graham
“In everyone life there is at certain stage of our life when we decide who we are”
— Albert Schweitzer
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world”
— Frida Kahlo
“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
“The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
“I too sing America”
— Langston Hughes
“Whatever is, is.”
— Parmenides
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
— Judy Garland
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“I am large I contain multitudes”
“One is not born but rather becomes a woman”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“I am not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps I am the first Simone Biles”
— Simone Biles
“You are your best thing”
— Toni Morrison
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become”
“We only find purpose in dialogue with others our identity is formed through recognition”
— Charles Taylor
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do”
“What we know matters but who we are matters more”
— Brene Brown
“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.”
— Carl Jung
“I can only answer the question what am I to do if I can answer the prior question of what story am I part of.”
— Alasdair MacIntyre
“I am not what I am I am what I do with my hands”
— Louise Bourgeois
“Kindness is the best way to tell the truth about who we are”
— Bob Goff
“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.”
“You are the unchanging awareness in which all activity takes place”
— Mooji
“First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.”
“What a liberation to realize that the voice in my head is not who I am.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
“You become what you believe not what you think or what you want”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
— Oscar Wilde
“To live is to choose but to choose well you must know who you are and what you stand for”
— Kofi Annan
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
— William Shakespeare
“There is no savor more sweet more salt than to be glad to be what woman and who myself I am”
— Denise Levertov
“I am not what happened to me I am what I choose to become”
“It isn't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
— W.C. Fields
“Time is the substance I am made of time is a river which sweeps me along but I am the river”
“I dreamed I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither. Then I awoke. Now I wonder: am I a man who dreamed of being a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of being a man?”
— Chuang Tzu
“We become full human agents capable of understanding ourselves through rich languages of expression.”
“What we know matters but who we are matters more.”
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.”
— Buddha
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
— Maya Angelou
“You are not a person you are the awareness in which the person appears”
“You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”
— Lou Holtz
“What you wear is how you present yourself to the world failure teaches us who we really are”
— Miuccia Prada
“What we know matters, but who we are matters more.”
“The real work of healing is letting go of everything that isnt you”
— Yung Pueblo
“In most of our human relationships we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight but real healing drops the costume”
— Ram Dass
“You become what you believe.”
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river.”
“You are your best thing.”
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of your family.”
“What a liberation to realize that the voice in my head is not who I am”
“For what its worth: it is never too late to be whoever you want to be.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Last night I dreamt I was a butterfly, and now I do not know whether I am a man who dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he is a man.”
— Zhuangzi
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
— Joseph Campbell
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
— Unknown
“I am not this hair I am not this skin I am the soul that lives within”
— Rumi
“I am not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps. I am the first Simone Biles.”
“I was born with music inside me music was one of my parts like my ribs my kidneys my liver my heart”
— Ray Charles
“Life isnt about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
“The land retains an identity of its own still deeper and more subtle than we can know.”
— Barry Lopez
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are.”
— Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience we are spiritual beings having a human experience”
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You are the sky everything else is just weather”
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