Mary E. Pearson Quotes

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

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

I show up knowing exactly who I was and never leave as myself.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

I once was the walrus, now I'm John.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.

I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.

I don't think of myself as a brand. Branding to me feels like a position or identity that's frozen in time. I'm more interested in transitions.

I used to be.

I look at old pictures of me... and I don't feel like I'm that guy anymore, but then I look at pictures of me now, and I'm not quite sure I'm this guy.

Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life.

I am not who I was, but I know who I am.

How many people came and stayed a certain time, Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you Like light behind windblown fog and sand Filtered and influenced by it, until no part Remains that is surely you.

I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

Time is the enemy of identity

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.

I don't know if you know who you are, until you lose who you are.

You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

I used to be somebody. Now I’m somebody else.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.