Nicholas Sparks Quotes

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

You are.

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

What are we taking from people and what do we give is a life-long struggle, I think, for most of us. Who are we? Do we like who we are? Do we know who we are? Do we care? Does anyone care? That's such a big topic. I could tackle that in many movies. So could other people.

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

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

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

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

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

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.

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

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

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

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

I came to love, I came into my own.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I have faced up to what I am.