Joss Whedon Quotes

You are.

I think, for me, it has been important to remain 'Petra from Fulnek.'

You're always just going to be who you are.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had.

I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply dependent on others dancing with me and that I still have a sense of self when no one wants to dance.

Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.

There has to be a balance, Vin," Elend said. "Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be." He sighed. "But for now," he said, nodding to the side, "we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the voice of God replied: I am not, either. I dreamed the world the way you dreamed your work, my Shakespeare: one of the forms of my dream was you, who, like me, are many and one.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

I've learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people's expectations than with your own sense of self and self-confidence.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

It's easy to forget who you are.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

My personality doesn't interest me.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

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.