Stephanie Beatriz Quotes

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.

Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.

I really had a rough time in middle school. Middle school to me was the way most people explain high school. Then in high school I had a blast. I basically did everything that you would do in high school or in college, so it really wasn't a difficult thing to pull out.

I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.

When I started law school in 2010, I would have called myself an atheist. When I graduated law school in 2013, I was exploring my faith again. A lot changed in those three years.

I think that everybody kind of changes a lot between the time they're seventeen and when they're twenty-one or twenty-two.

I used to be like a normal IIT student to be very honest. Then I joined the dramatics society there in IIT Kharagpur.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.

You get to a certain age, and you feel like you know who you are, and how you fit into the world, and how the world sort of perceives you. And you get pretty set in that. And then things can happen that can turn it upside.

Being such a tomboy growing up, that was one thing that changed me as a person, as well. It broadened me, like me cracking myself open in a certain way.

Ask any human being alive if they're the same person they were seven years ago and they're going to tell you they aren't.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

High school is a really strange time - you're not a kid, you're not an adult. You're about to be an adult, you're going to have to make some really intense decisions. It's a really pivotal time to have as much self-confidence as you possibly can. Even if that means you have one friend who supports you completely.

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

I’m trying to get away from roles. I used to identify myself strictly in terms of my role, but when your roles fall away, part of you falls with them.

Many times I feel different like a different person.

Have your friends collect your records and then change your number.

The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried up, exaggerated, or diminished. It can be its exact opposite, like a suit worn inside out.

Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.

If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”

But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.

In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them seem to me written by a stranger: I simply do not recognize myself in them. There was a person who wrote them, and it was I. I experienced them, but it was in another life, from which I just woke up, as if from someone else's dream.