Knowing Who You Are Quotes

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

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

I think beauty comes from actually knowing who you are. That's real beauty to me.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.

I think self-confidence doesn’t come so much from knowing you’re great as just knowing who you are.

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

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

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are

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.

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

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

Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.

I must forgive without noise or fuss.

You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

Knowing who you are is confidence.

When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don't need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to be worshiped.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

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.

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.

The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.

There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

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

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.

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.

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.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

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!

Humility: The realization of our dependence on God. I have always had strong feelings about that word regardless of what anyone's background might be. One of the common denominators of greatness is acknowledging that dependence. As power comes from Charity, power also comes from knowing who you are, a divine offspring of a divine being.

As a model I had a lot of success when I was 17 and 18 years old. It was before social media, before the world was what the world is, but even then it was terrifying, to be 18 years old and people knowing who you are, and I was this personality who was completely devoid of who I actually was. It was almost like being a manufactured boy band. You're sort of like a wind up doll; they wind you up and put you on the runway or something like that.

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

Independnce comes from you knowing who you are and you being happy with yourself.

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.

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

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.

The secret to feeling attractive, and to being attractive, is the confidence that comes from knowing who you are and what you believe in.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain but to handle the life that arises... If you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing... The demon that you swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.

True beauty is knowing who you are and what you want and never apologizing for it.

No man should be angry with what is true.

The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.