Haim Ginott Quotes

When we're growing up and being teenagers, oftentimes you try so hard to define yourself. You try to create an image of yourself because you don't really know who you are yet. And that can be kind of limiting because you forget that there are actually so many different sides of identity. And it's important to recognize that everyone is completely different.

Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

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

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

I know what my identity is.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

Everything when you're a teenager is a projection. Or at least, for me, it was. 'Who am I gonna be?'

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?