“As long as you live here, it's who you are. You'll understand someday.”— Flip Kobler, Cindy Marcus, imdb.com
“When the world is quiet and you’re truly alone and with your mind, what do you think about? What do you hope for? Follow that.”— Bianca Sparacino, shopcatalog.com
“People you love, they made you who you are. They're still part of you. If you stop being you, that last bit of them that's still around inside, who you are, it's gone.”— Seth Hoffman, Glenn Rhee, Steven Yeun, imdb.com
“Remember what you are and what you are not.”— David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Ramsay Snow, Iwan Rheon, imdb.com
“There are two components to self-awareness. How well you know yourself? How accurately you understand how other people perceive you.”— Ben Casnocha, twitter.com
“My father took me aside one day soon after and told me this: The things you do in your twenties are just things you do. But as you approach thirty what you do starts to become who you are. And there are some things you do not want to be forever.”— Jessica Valenti, amazon.com
“It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”— Roald Dahl, amazon.com
“Why do we lose touch with our core Selves? As children, we all have the job of adapting to our families, our peers, our communities and our culture. We sacrifice self-expression to stay in the good graces of those we need. This is essential for survival. But when we deny, thwart, or exclude too much…”— Hilary Jacobs Hendel, hilaryjacobshendel.com
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”— Niccolò Machiavelli, amazon.com
“Others may question your credentials, your papers, your degrees. Others may look for all kinds of ways to diminish your worth. But what is inside you no one can take from you or tarnish. This is your worth, who you really are, your degree that can go with you wherever you go, that you bring with you…”— Chris Gardner, amazon.com
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”— André Gide, amazon.com
“Though I lack the art to decipher it, no doubt the next chapter in my book of transformations is already written. I am not done with my changes.”— Stanley Kunitz, amazon.com
“Do you know who you really are? Your ancestors are the stars. You are, quite literally, conscious stardust.”— Bryan Reeves, amazon.com
“As I stood in contemplation of the garden of the wonders of space, I had the feeling that I was looking into the ultimate depths, the most secret regions of my own being; and I smiled, because it had never occurred to me that I could be so pure, so great, so fair! My heart burst into singing with th…”— Oscar Milosz, amazon.com
“You torment yourself wondering how they could not love your burning heart; and the answer is darling, you are not the star you thought you were. You are the fucking universe.”— Marimontoya, marimontoya.tumblr.com
“You yourself are made up of atoms that rained down on to Earth billions of years ago. So when you meet someone and you swear that you have known them before, that you have felt them before, know that there is no coincidence in that, finally your cells are reunited, and at last, it feels like you are…”— Bianca Sparacino, amazon.com