Lisa Lutz Quotes

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.

Know thyself.

My personality doesn't interest me.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

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.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

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

Learn what you are and be such.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

One of my problems is to find the self.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

I discovered myself!

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

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.