who we are Quotes

“Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you’ve got.”

“Where you are is who you are. The inside further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.”

“Your value doesn’t come because of who you are. It comes because of whose you are.”

“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.”

We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

“Guys are great before you know who they are. They’re great when you’re still with who they might be.”

“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.”

“You might as well argue with a mirror as argue with each other. After all, aren’t we all really the same person?”

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”

“I’m lonelier and wiser now, and I know it isn’t cruelty or shame that characterizes the human race. It’s forgiveness that makes us what we are.”

“In every important way we are such secrets from each other, and I do believe that there is a separate language in each of us, also a separate aesthetics and a separate jurisprudence.”

″...if we do not like the person we have learned to be, should we just sit in front of our fufu, doing nothing? I think, James, that maybe it is possible to make a new way.”