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