Knowing Who You Are Quotes - Page 3

• To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Goal, Limits

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• It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Beautiful, World, Chaos

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• Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.

  Jodi Picoult

  Where You Belong, Equal, Knowing

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

  David Levithan

  Trying, Want, No Excuses

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.147, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You're so beautiful," said Alice. "I'm afraid of looking at you and not knowing who you are." "I think that even if you don't know who I am someday, you'll still know that I love you." "What if I see you, and I don't know that you're my daughter, and I don't know that you love me?" "Then, I'll tell you that I do, and you'll believe me.

  Lisa Genova

  Beautiful, Daughter, Believe

  Lisa Genova (2011). “Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it.

  Geneen Roth

  Inspiring, Believe, Health

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Jul 08, 2014

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• 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

  Style, Doe, World

  Nina Garcia (2009). “The Little Black Book of Style”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

  Mila Kunis

  Life, Pushing It, Cockiness

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• Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

  Robert Henri

  Motivation, Emotional, Cherish

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

  Diane Ackerman

  Mirrors, Keeping Secrets, Looks

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1991.

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• I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Education, Knowledge, Ignorant

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• 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

  Ideas, Generations, Where You Stand

  Flannery O'Connor (1971). “The Complete Stories”, p.407, Macmillan

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• 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

  Order, Excellence, Needs

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• The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Self, Common

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• We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

  Eric Berne

  Sad, Civilization, Frogs

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• If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Fighting, Silence

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Believe, Nobody Knows

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• 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

  Light, Two, Darkness

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.475, Vintage

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• I got divorced, after having been married for almost eight years. That is a very life-altering experience. There's a period of time that you go through, where you're having to adjust to knowing yourself and knowing who you are from being a couple to being an individual again.

  Jenna Fischer

  Couple, Eight, Years

  "Jenna Fischer Talks A LITTLE HELP and THE OFFICE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2011.

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• Individual style is the correct balance of knowing who you are, what works fro you, and how to develop your own personality

  Giorgio Armani

  Personality, Style, Balance

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• Because orgasmic sex would lead to women's autonomy, knowing who you are and what we want: Women are not going to follow what some jackass tells us we must do. Not all women are going to get married, be monogamous and raise a family. It will destroy the current social structure based on a sexual double standard that we're currently living under.

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Double Standard, Want

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

  Erich Fromm

  Birth, Born, Minutes

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Running, Crazy, Thinking

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• Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Knights, Monsters, Reason

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• You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

  Jenifer Lewis

  Thinking, Knowing, Self

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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