P. C. Cast Quotes

You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.

You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

I don't think a name defines the core of who you are.

You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.

You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.

Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

I define myself from a vision, from a point of view of life.

Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that's all you've really got; when you strip everything down, that's all you've got, so always be yourself.

If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.

Our deep desires define us, really.

The only person that can define you is you. Nobody else can.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that's what I deal with when I am alone.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

You're not a combination of all your labels. You just are.