We’re all more than the person we show to everyone else. At least I hope so. Because I feel like there’s more to me than that. I just haven’t had the chance yet to show it.

I want this day to be my fresh start. I want this to be the day I step out of my comfort zone and go somewhere new.

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

People always put their own spin on things, remember what they want to remember, and somewhere in the middle of it all is the truth—the real version.

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

It seems to me that the experiences that stay with you, the things you’ll always remember, aren’t the ones you can force, or go looking for. I’ve always thought of those things as the ones that somehow find you.

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

—Oscar Wilde

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

Be who you are and be that well.

—Francis de Sales

The things that we love tell us what we are.

—Thomas Aquinas

We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.

—Susan Griffin