4,826 Quotes About Self

Love who you are, not who the world says you are not.

Don't hate me for who I am, don't love me for who I am not.

You are exceptional because of who you are, not because of what you have.

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.

Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves.

And when you try to live there, to live in a place where you're betraying yourself over and over, not only do you grow to resent the hell out of it, and resent the hell out of whomever you're betraying and censoring yourself for, but the very idea of your self begins slowly and inexorably to erode. Until you realize one day out of the clear blue that you have no idea who your self is, anymore.

My world foreshortened, flattening into a credit card. Seen head on, things seemed merely skewed, but from the side the view was virtually meaningless--a one-dimensional wafer. Everything about me may have been crammed in there, but it was only plastic. Indecipherable except to some machine.

Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.

When I said, “I am my mother, but I’m not,” I was saying my path would be my own.