RM Quotes

Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

I think I find a commonality between characters and the different sides of myself.

It's like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you're not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.

To accept duality is to earn identity.

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

I have no issues with my identity.

I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

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

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.

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

Learn what you are and be such.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.