Richard Rohr Quotes

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. Could she sing? (Was it nice to hear when she did?) Was she pretty? Was she a good friend? Could she have been a loving mother? A faithful wife? Have I got a sister and does she favor me? If my mother knew me would she like me? (140)

Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

It's easy to forget who you are.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

It took me a while to find myself.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'

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

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

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

You have to look yourself in the eye and ask, 'Who are you?' It can't be all about work.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

My whole life has been a search for finding myself, pretty much.