Who You Are Quotes - Page 15

• Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

  Robin McKinley

  Names, Needs, Where You Live

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• What you were is forever who you are.

  Salman Rushdie

  Forever

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• Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

  Esmeralda Santiago

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.243, Da Capo Press

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• First love is unrequited ultimately because it’s so huge.It’s such an act of giving and it requires so much back that it can never be given back. It’s like an atom bomb. It’s like… It’s all the energy of who you are and who you want to be and what you love and what you hope to be explodes. It is impossible for a single... human being to offer that back to you in a mutual way.

  Stephen Fry

  First Love, Love Is, Giving

  "First Love Is Always Unrequited" by Stephen Fry, bigthink.com.

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• Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are.

  Frederick Buechner

  Morning, Self, Feet

  Frederick Buechner (1970). “The alphabet of grace”

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• There's pressure, but that's true no matter who you are or what you do.

  Rachel Vincent

  Matter, Pressure

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “Soul Screamers Volume One: My Soul to Lose\My Soul to Take\My Soul to Save”, p.365, Harlequin

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• this is one of my absolute favourite quotes its from the evernight series (stargazer) charity to Balthazar You remind me of too much. you remind me of what it felt like to be alive, to think of sunlight as something you could enjoy instead of something you could bare, to breath and have it change you, refresh you, awaken you, instead of just churning on and on some old useless habit that taunts you with what you use to be, to sigh and feel relief, to cry and let your sadness pass, instead of having it all bottled up inside of you forever and ever until you don't know who you are any more.

  Claudia Gray

  Sadness, Thinking, Forever

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• ...You have to accept yourself, who you are. You don't believe. You still fight who you are. Until you accept yourself, until you believe, you won't be able to call forth your Han, your power, except in great anger.

  Terry Goodkind

  Believe, Fighting, Able

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• If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make any difference where you come from, or where you went to school, or who you are, there’s hope. That a kid from Jersey with Superman as the icon that kept him alive for years would one day end up writing the character is as absoutely unlikely as it is utterly inevitable. And if that’s true for me, it’s true for you, if you follow your dreams and your passions in full flight. Don’t give up. No Limits. It’s never too late to learn to fly.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Dream, Giving Up, Passion

  "J. Michael Stracyznski takes over Superman and Wonder Woman" by Glenn Hauman, www.comicmix.com. March 8, 2010.

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• How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Justice, Clue, Tao Of Pooh

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• Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Knowing, Answers, Next

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• I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.

  Amanda Hocking

  You Make Me Happy, Care, Ever After

  Amanda Hocking (2012). “Torn”, p.188, Pan Macmillan

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• You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.

  Christine Feehan

  Love You, Enough, Accepting

  Christine Feehan (2012). “Christine Feehan's Drake Sisters Series: Five Novels and a Novella”, p.510, Penguin

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• You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.

  Terry Brooks

  Struggle, Thinking, Identity

  Terry Brooks (2009). “The Magic Kingdom of Landover”, p.97, Del Rey

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• Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. This is your true self, Tessa. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now--and you must also love yourself--will love the truth of you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love You, Self, Sophie

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• You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Lying, Needs, Never Let Me Go

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.74, Faber & Faber

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• Let me tell you something you haven't learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn't matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events - they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn't have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don't even notice at first, and then one day it's there. You wake up and you just don't have the fire anymore." He smiled.

  Terry Brooks

  Fire, One Day, Energy

  Terry Brooks (2000). “The Elf Queen of Shannara”, p.164, Del Rey

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• It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.

  Bette Davis

  People, Sometimes, Hated

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• 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?

  David Levithan

  Giving, Trying, Way

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.17, Egmont UK

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• It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.

  Lady Gaga

  Destiny, Pockets, Where You Come

  "Lady Gaga says fame was her 'destiny' in new HBO Promo" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. April 26, 2011.

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• Most important, in order to find real happiness, you must learn to love yourself for the totality of who you are and not just what you look like.

  Portia de Rossi

  Real, Love Yourself, Order

  Portia de Rossi (2010). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.

  Tom Clancy

  Ideas, Important, Principles

  Tom Clancy (1990). “Clear and Present Danger”, p.459, Penguin

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• If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return today, will your arms gather me in, or will I be wrenched away, snatched by riptide I have no power to resist? If I find my way to you, one man standing in a crowd, will I even know who you are?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Men, Crowds, Arms

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• Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.” “What . . . what game?” “The only game. The game of thrones.” -(Littlefinger)

  George R. R. Martin

  Confused, Moving, Games

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2138, Bantam

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• Who you are is always right.

  Ming-Dao Deng

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