“Just remember that sometimes the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.”— John Green, amazon.com
“When you see death, things change. ‘It doesn’t matter if I can’t smile or blink properly,’ I told her. ‘I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.”— Malala Yousafzai, amazon.com
“I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban,' but the 'girl who fought for education.' This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.”— Malala Yousafzai, amazon.com
“When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban – that's my definition for her – I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which…”— Malala Yousafzai, theguardian.com
“When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.”— Meghan O'Rourke, amazon.com
“When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“There is a wellspring of life within you where you can go for cleansing and transformation.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”— Deepak ChopraVerified account, twitter.com
“There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and…”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.”— Jay Z, amazon.com
“I keep wondering, how many people do you need to be, before you can become yourself.”— Iain Thomas, iwrotethisforyou.me
“So I encourage everyone to do more than seek out a label - seek out yourself”— Equality Speaks, youtube.com
“I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you’re with them.”— Anne Tyler, amazon.com
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com