Don't be sorry you loved him. That's part of you, part you have to let go, yeah, but still something that's made you who you are.
—Richelle Mead in Spirit Bound
I have a friend who has devoted most of his adult life to resisting the madness of war through actions of justice and peace. He… lives in poverty so as to stay below the taxation level.… The money he "should" have given the government over the years he has donated to peace-and-justice projects. Does he have any results to show for his efforts? Has he been effective? Hardly—at least, not by the normal calculus. His years of commitment to peacemaking have been years of steady increase in wars and rumors of wars. So how does he stay healthy and sane? How does he maintain a commitment to this sort of active life? "I have never asked myself if I was being effective," he says, "but only if I was being faithful." He judges his action not by the results it gets, but by its fidelity to his own calling and identity.
—Parker J. Palmer
I remember who you are. Even if you forget.
—Kristen Simmons
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
—Gertrude Stein
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
—Lisa Schroeder in Far from You
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
What's the actual identity, what's the actual inner person, is there even an inner self, is there any identity? Anybody's identity problem is the entire universe; it's as vast as the entire universe.
—Allen Ginsberg
People don't change. They're only revealed.
—Staci Hart in Hardcore
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
—Alfred Austin
Don't ever lose yourself in somebody else. It's hard to remember who you used to be if they disappear.
—S.L. Scott in The Resistance
When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
—W. S. Gilbert
A person's a person, no matter how small.
—Dr. Seuss
I am a part of everything that I have read.
—Theodore Roosevelt
I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?
—Grace Hopper
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
—Mahatma Gandhi