David Levithan Quotes

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

Even while in school - initially, Vineberg Allen in Mussourie, and later, a number of schools in Ludhiana - I aspired to achieve great things in life. Admittedly, I wasn't quite sure about what these great things would be.

I think at some point during everyone's life, you finally figure yourself out. I haven't even done that yet. I'm still learning who I am.

Ask yourself honestly, who do you wanna be and what are you willing to do to become that person?

I always look for... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.

I've always wanted better for myself; I just didn't know what route I was going to take.

Knowing who we are helps us plan for who we want to be and where we want to go.

'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.

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

You can be whoever you want to be, you just have to want it bad enough.

The people who complain the loudest about never having an opportunity in life are usually the ones who have no idea what they really want.

What counts is knowing who you want to be and asking for it.

Once I became a professional, maybe 19 or 20, I really started to try to figure out who I was, as a woman and as an individual.

You can determine what your future holds based on how much time and energy you spend working on yourself now. Find out what it is you want, and go after it as if your life depends on it. Why? Because it does.

Look what you can become in pursuit of what you want, and look out for what you become in the pursuit of what you want--don't compromise!

The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that.

Once we get out into a kind of an open world, we really do learn about ourselves and for me it's a lesson in discovering yourself, discovering your inner resources and then literally, in the movie, finding your voice.

How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.

When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it ... What we're searching for is what we lack.