Natasha Leggero Quotes

Identity is what gives you self-confidence, purpose of life and affinity with other people. We are in a situation where it is harder to develop an identity because we are living in a much more dynamic world.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I think people don't want be alone. Ultimately, we want to feel connected. We want to feel like there is someone who actually sees us in the world. That's the big thing: to be seen. How many people actually feel seen?

I'm different. Like, I recognize that, and I need to make sure that I am as prepared, that I understand, that I've done everything I can, knowing that people are gonna wanna say, 'She doesn't belong.' I wanna prove to them I do.

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

She was working to remind herself of who she was. She was working to remember that somewhere in another place entirely she was known and loved.

What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.

Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.

Then of course there are bigger things that matter, like who do I see up there in the congregation? Do I see myself up there? Well, I don't.

When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."

If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

Our deepest human need is not material at all. Our deepest need is to be seen.

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.

There's a problem which is when you're trapped in your own identity and everything is really you, then you feel less freedom to sort of explore who you want to be. So I think it's kind of something we're stuck with as long as humans are the way we are.

You're not a human till you're in my phone book. There. My hat is now in the political ring.

You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

It was one of the few places where someone remembered his name. Yeah, okay, so he felt like Sam Malone on Cheers, but there was no Norm or Cliff sitting at the bar here. More like Spike and Switchblade.’ (Wulf)

No man knows himself as an original.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.