"Looking for who I am is who I am."

-- Tom Spanbauer

#Who I Am Quotes

“Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lynne Sharon Schwartz from Oct 22, 2014
“Samir Nasri is well dressed every day. He always makes the effort. Always. I have never seen him look anything but immaculate.”

Source : Interview with Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com. April 8, 2012.
“Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.”
“Guilt is the major motivating force in my life.”

Source : Linda Barnes (2015). “Steel Guitar”, p.63, Open Road Media
“I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have the words for it, since we hadn't yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily.”
“At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.”
“Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings.”
“Three elements go to make up an idea. The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy with which it affects other ideas, an energy which is infinite in the here-and-nowness of immediate sensation, finite and relative in the recency of the past. The third element is the tendency of an idea to bring along other ideas with it.”

Source : Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, Harvard University Press

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