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