identity realization Quotes

Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.

Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.

I realize that I'm kind of a different person than I thought I was.

Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.

My own view of myself was that I was small and innocuous, a marshmallow compared to the others. I was a poor shot with a 22, for instance, and not very good with an ax. It took me a long time to figure out that the youngest in a family of dragons is still a dragon from the point of view of those who find dragons alarming.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

In a way I think why the Ghost story is very relatable to a large audience is that it's kind of a coming of age story and it's a realisation of 'I am what I am - what has happened to me, good or bad, that is the sum of who I am now'.

I knew I was gay when I was around 13. There wasn't the internet, there weren't support groups, AIDS was everywhere. I mean, it was really dark.

The world isn't what I've believed it to be, and I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.

Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a little. And that'll be perfectly all right, because it's not every day you realize you're a living planet dweller on a little island in the universe.

The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.

You always have that moment where you grow up and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'm being exactly like my mother." I think that's everyone's greatest hope and worst fear.

I am a lesbian, and it was a later in life recognition of that fact.

That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]

What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.

I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life... Instead I lost hold of life completely. I reached out for something to attach myself to - and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for - myself.

I woke up one day and realized I was a closet hetero

I'm happy just because I found out I am really no one

I never dreamed of so much happiness when I was the Ugly Duckling!