Markus Zusak Quotes

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.

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

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

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves.

Everyone has the answers.

I know what I don't want.

You are.

And that’s the way it is

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Remember that cosmic fact and mental myth cannot occupy the same place at the same time, any more than two hands can occupy the same glove. So choose what is truly right for you.

I just kind of, like, know who I am. I think that comes from having an incredibly strong sense of purpose for a very long time.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

What exists, exists. You cannot change that.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

Everybody is looking with his own world of desires, expectations, passions, lust, greed, anger. There are a thousand and one things standing between you and your world; that's why you don't ever see it as it is. Once your eye is completely clean, clean of all the dust, once it becomes a pure mirror, it reflects that which is. And that is truth and truth liberates, but it has to be your own. My truth cannot liberate you, Buddha's truth cannot liberate you. There is only one possibility of liberation, that is your own truth. And all that you have to do is to create a dispassionate eye.

You can't build a future if you do not know who you are. You can't become who you are meant to be if you can't tell the truth about who you are, what you have, and everything about your life. The truth is the absolute essence to your success, while lies are the absolute essence to your failures.

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

Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be

But it was equally clear to her that this was her fate, that she had called its name and it had come to her, and she could do nothing now but own it.

We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.

You can recover the truth of what you really are. When you finally see yourself as you are, when you finally take responsibility for your creation, you will cleanse the lies from your own creation.

In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.