Quotes About Self

The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.

Live as though life was created for you.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

She lived life as if it had been created just for her

The black mother perceives destruction at every door, ruination at each window, and even she herself is not beyond her own suspicion.

Style is as unique and nontransferable and perfectly personal as a fingerprint. It is wise to take the time to develop one's own way of being, increasing those things one does well and eliminating the elements in one's character which can hinder and diminish the good personality.

We are sa blind as we want to be

We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily — as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable.

Dancing liberated me and even made me feel as if my body had a reason to be

Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.

Mrs. Cullinan was right about one thing. My name wasn't Mary.

Here this clean mirror traps me unwilling in a gone time when I was love and you were booted and brave and trembling for me.

Decide what makes you happy and damn what anyone else thinks or says

I just want you to see you the way that I see you.

She's told me on multiple occasions that I don't have to always stay the person I was, that I can change and be whoever I want to be.

Subject:My butt

It's about the person's soul, Lizzie, not the parts they have on the outside. You know that." I'd nodded. Because that's true. At least, that's how it's supposed to be.

Megan McCafferty

The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.

What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?

She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or if the mask had become her self. If the longing inside her for kindness, for warmth, for compassion, was the last seed of hope for her, she didn't know how to nurture it or if it could live.

But if I hadn't lost the hand, I'd be another person entirely by now. Wishing for the hand back would be like wishing the man I already am, to be replaced by some stranger. It would be wishing my own self out of existence.

Life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally — and sometimes maddeningly — who we are.

Maybe learning how to be out in the big world isn't the epic journey everyone thinks it is. Maybe that's actually the easy part. The hard part is what's right in front of you. The hard part is learning how to hold the title to your very existence, to own not only property, but also your life.