Quotes About Self

You can run away from your life and your past, but there's no way to distance yourself from your own heart.

And you," Large Marge said. "What's your story, missy?" "I don't have a story." "Everyone has a story. Maybe yours just starts up here.

We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are." —ANAÏS NIN

You can run away from your life and your past, but there's no way to distance yourself from your own heart.

Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. —JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

to herself and wiping tears from her eyes, which turned

En el amor descubrimos quiénes queremos ser. En la guerra descubrimos quiénes somos en realidad.

you care too much about everyone else. What do you want?

Elsa had discovered within herself a nearly bottomless capacity for love.

that in moments like this, it doesn't matter what you were born to be. It matters what you choose to become.

Somehow along the way, I let myself be erased,

We all come into this world with our fate unwritten, Yona. Your identity isn't determined by your birth. All that matters is what we make ourselves into, what we choose to do with our lives." Forest of Vanishing Stars

But we aren't defined by the names we carry or the religion we practice, or the nation whose flag flies over our heads. I know that now. We're defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth.

Hope non puoi affrontare la vita rispettando tutte le regole e facendo tutto quello che ci si aspetta da te senza pensare a te stessa. È così che ci si sveglia a ottant'anni e ci si rende conto di essersi lasciati sfuggire tutte le occasioni della vita.»

You're someone who finds herself in the pages,

Do you know what else this very wise person told me?" he asks. "She said that we're defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth. And I believe, Mrs. Abrams, that you chose to be a hero, even if you don't see it that way." He

Maybe in the end you can't run from who you are without destroying your life.

There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect self, and even if I kept moving, she would dog me all the way around the world, forever.

It isn't what characteristics, what traits you've inherited from your parents that make you who you are. It's the choices you make, Henry, that decide what kind of person you become.

Well, my heart knows me better than I know myself so I'm gonna let it do all the talking.

the stories of the supremely successful entrepreneurs obscure the forgotten millions of losers and nincompoops. The fabulous successes seem like proof of the power of passionate belief in oneself, our American faith in faith.

Maybe I had a "secret identity", but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as "me". The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.

I don't care what you think unless it is about me.

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.