Knowing Who You Are famous quotes
05-15-2025
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Knowing who you are begins in the mind.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell -
It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
-- Diane Ackerman -
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
-- Diane Ackerman -
The secret to feeling attractive, and to being attractive, is the confidence that comes from knowing who you are and what you believe in.
-- Diane von Furstenberg -
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
-- Edward R. Murrow -
I think beauty comes from actually knowing who you are. That's real beauty to me.
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.
-- Erich Fromm -
Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are.
-- Geneen Roth -
I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
-- Helen Keller -
It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.
-- Hiromu Arakawa -
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.
-- James Russell Lowell -
Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.
-- John Bradshaw -
The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.
-- Joyce Cary -
Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.
-- Ken Blanchard -
The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...
-- Leo Tolstoy -
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.
-- Meister Eckhart -
In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are.
-- Michael Ray -
Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.
-- Mila Kunis -
They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
-- Naomi Judd -
Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.
-- Nina Garcia -
My definition of freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it. No matter what anyone else is doing. And naked parties of course.
-- Pink -
True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going.
-- Rita Ora -
I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.
-- Rob Lowe -
Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is.
-- Sheldon B. Kopp -
Be aware of yourself and know yourself. No matter how much you have learned and how much you know, if you don't know yourself you don't know anything.
-- Suzuki Shosan -
When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure. The nerves are steady, the chemical system has an equilibrium, and there is relaxation, equipoise. You live in the clarity of knowing who you are.
-- Vimala Thakar -
Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
-- Yanni -
Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are
-- Flannery O'Connor -
You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you.
-- Kelly Carlin-McCall -
Authenticity and knowing who you are is fundamental to being an effective and long-standing leader.
-- Ann M. Fudge
