Quotes about Identity
These seeds will always be tulips, even if at the moment you cannot tell them apart from other flowers. They will never turn into roses or sunflowers, no matter how much they might desire to. And if they try to deny their own existence, they will live life bitter and die.
— Paulo Coelho
In the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own Personal Legends.
— Paulo Coelho
Am I cured?" "No. You're someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.
— Paulo Coelho
If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry.
— Paulo Coelho
Never try to please everyone; if you do, you will be respected by no one.
— Paulo Coelho
I am who I was and who I will be.
— Paulo Coelho
Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.
— Paulo Coelho
I'm just like that woman really. Or rather, that's what I used to be like: someone pretending to know everything, hidden away in my own silence
— Paulo Coelho
You're crying? I'm a woman of the desert, she said, averting her face. But above all, I'm a woman.
— Paulo Coelho
Express yourself through your art - whether it's your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.
— Kat Von D
What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.
— Virginia Woolf
I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.
— Ernest Hemingway