Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

One creates oneself.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

I understood that I am a lot bigger than what I do, that I have a bigger potential.

As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.

There's who you think you are and who you want to be, and then who you actually are.

The camera doesn't make you a better person, it doesn't even change the person that you are, it just magnifies who you are.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

I'm a work in progress.

Everybody grows in their own way.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.