Michael Ende Quotes

Ironically, it was because I was raised as a Muslim in the South, that I realised the value in being true to who you really are. I've just got so many things going on inside. I don't know how to resolve all of them other than being true to who I am.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

I felt like there were two people inside me. I was trying to be somebody I was not, and I was frustrated that people didn't know who I was.

I don't know how happy I was when I met Sting. I always had this difficulty of not really knowing who I was.

It was easier to act, in a way, than to be myself. Somehow I just felt I was in the right place.

I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was my actual personality. I was still working out what kind of person I was.

Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back together and then she fell apart again and put herself back together, over and over.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.

I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.

I don't know which me that I love, got no reflection.

Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.

When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don't know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.

Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!

We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.

If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.