Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

My personality doesn't interest me.

One of my problems is to find the self.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

I think skating helped me find myself.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.