Gayle Forman Quotes

They can give you all the pills on earth and do whatever - and you're still yourself.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.. It is finding the essence of who you are.

And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.

Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?

I find that I relate to most of the characters that I play on a really personal level, just because we're the same age, we're girls, and we're growing. I can find myself in those roles, so it makes it easy to connect to. But all of them are their own person - they're all hard to understand and hard to figure out, just like I am.

You can listen to 'Cosmic' and truly get to know me, which I think is special.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism.

The journal and Gansey were clearly long acquainted, and he wanted her to know. This is me. The real me.

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.

We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.

The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.

Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.

Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that.

What we seek is what we are.

Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.