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