Miguel Zenon Quotes

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community.

I would certainly say that my life, and perhaps human life in general, follows an intricate pattern of defining, declaring, struggling for, fighting for what we think of and treasure as the self. The inviolate self. This begins with our families: your parents are part of your cultural landscape, and they are also shaped by larger forces than them.

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can.

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.

I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

You have to go through a mental and emotional process to recognize who you really are. I finally recognized that I cannot be defined by one country.

I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.

Just lead your life and try to make the best decisions.

I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.

I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

We're a nation in search of an identity, but it's quite exciting. I don't regard it as a problem. It's a challenge.

I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.