Your tiredness is your resistance to who you are, the person you actually want to be.
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Quotes tagged ‘Identity’
If you lose someone but find yourself, you won.
I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm someone else.
I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.
It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else.
What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don’t know and I’m afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.
I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?
There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don’t really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.
If there's so much I must be, can't I still just be me, the way I am?
The question is: who are you?
You have forgotten who you are and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself Simba. You are more than what you have become.
Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?
You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.
I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.
I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.
I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Chairs are for people, and you're not sure if you are…
Rihanna and Cardi B have that idgaf attitude, like ‘I am who I am & you will deal’ which is why I fuck with them so heavy
People like me––gay people, undocumented people, undocumented gay people––are not ‘coming out.’ We’re just letting you in, and, in the process, asking you to find yourselves in us.