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