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Quotations
 | Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 28 likes |
 | In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 14 likes |
 | To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 13 likes |
 | I'm glad I'm not me. — Bob Dylan, 1941-, American singer [Nobel 2016] 12 likes |
 | A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 11 likes |
 | Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] (Blindness, 1995) 11 likes |
 | When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 10 likes |
 | Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. — Golda Meir, 1898-1978, Israeli Prime Minister 10 likes |
 | Self-knowledge is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer 9 likes |
| The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 7 likes |
 | It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 7 likes |
| We are more our flaws than our qualifications. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] 7 likes |
 | Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 6 likes |
| Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 6 likes |
 | Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 6 likes |
 | Be yourself. The world worships the original. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 6 likes |
 | I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 6 likes |
| You are what you do, not what you say you'll do. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 6 likes |
 | My identity is not a blind fortress, a breastplate behind which I hide to cut myself off from others. It is this window which belongs only to me thanks to which I can discover the world. — Alain de Benoist, 1943-, French philosopher 6 likes |
 | You can forget who you are if you're alone too much. — Margaret Atwood, 1939 -, Canadian writer 6 likes |
 | I'm not an actress, I'm a personality. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 6 likes |
 | I am a part of all that I have met. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 5 likes |
 | One must be something in order to do something. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 5 likes |
 | To become what one is, one must not have the faintest idea what one is. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 5 likes |
 | Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer 5 likes |
 | It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are. — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 4 likes |
 | A man is what he wills himself to be. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher 4 likes |
 | Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 4 likes |
 | It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. — André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947 4 likes |
 | Only a man who is at one with the world can be at one with himself. — Friedrich von Schlegel, 1772-1829, German writer 4 likes |
 | How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone. — Coco Chanel, 1883-1971, French fashion designer 4 likes |
 | The word sein has two meanings in German: “I am” and “his”. — Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, Bohemian writer 4 likes |
| I am at heart a gentleman. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 4 likes |
| Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 4 likes |
 | We know what we are, but know not what we may be. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Hamlet 3 likes |
| The way to do is to be. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 3 likes |
 | My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 3 likes |
| I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher 3 likes |
 | It's been a long time since I've been me. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 3 likes |
 | We are what we are because we have been what we have been. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 3 likes |
| Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. — André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947 3 likes |
 | How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean? — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
| All I can be is me- whoever that is. — Bob Dylan, 1941-, American singer [Nobel 2016] 2 likes |
 | All the information I have about myself is from forged documents. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 2 likes |
 | Success is not in what you have, but who you are. — Bo Bennett, 1972-, American self-help guru 2 likes |
 | There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him. |
 | Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. — Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946, American writer (meaning: things are what they are) |
 | The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is. |
 | “Finding himself,” for modern man, means dissolving himself in any collective entity. |
 | Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. |
 | People like you to be something, preferably what they are. |
 | A man is the sum of his actions, of what he does, of what he can do. Nothing else. |
 | You'll never decide what you want until you've decided who you are. |
 | This book had two authors, and they were both the same person. |
 | To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. |
 | Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
| All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You’re a nobody. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself. |
 | 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; all the cities I have visited. |
 | The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded. |
 | Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are. |
 | The question is not “To be or not to be,” it is what we should be until we are not. |
| The most common form of despair is not being who you are. |
 | Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 |
 | The eye... the point where a person's identity is concentrated. |
 | I don't like work... but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know. |
 | I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me. |
 | Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? |
Quotes in Verse
 | I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too? — Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American poet 4 likes |
| Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself. |
Funny Quotes
 | I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. — Lily Tomlin, 1939-, American actress 6 likes |
 | I'm in search of myself have you seen me anywhere? — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
Movie Quotes
 | I'm Spartacus!... — from the film Spartacus (1960) 3 likes |
