Quotes About Not Knowing Who You Are

#1. You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

Jenifer Lewis

#2. If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what's left is who you are
the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. A body can't prosper if a person don't know who they are. That makes you poor as a pea, not knowing who you are inside. That's worse than being anything in the world on the outside.

James McBride

#4. One of the privileges of not knowing who you are is that you can pretend to be anyone you like.

Cameron Jace

#5. I don't want to die and come back and not remember your face, Will. I don't want to spend another lifetime not knowing who you are!

Courtney Allison Moulton

#6. Not knowing who you are is a certain kind of hell.

Kelly Thompson

#7. They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

Naomi Judd

#8. I can't stand the thought of looking at you someday, this face I love, and not knowing who you are.

Lisa Genova

#9. You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

Joseph Campbell

#10. Etta gave Will a small, knowing smile. Will, sometimes you have to love people for who they are, not who you want them to be.

Deanna Lynn Sletten

#11. Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely the path that is your life. - Jon Kabat

Howard Zinn

#12. Can you question who you are? And are you comfortable with not knowing?

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#13. You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.

Paul Thomas Anderson

#14. Half of knowing who you are is knowing who you are not. Don't allow people mould you to what they have in mind.

Patience Johnson

#15. You are free to announce and declare Who You Are in every moment of Now. Indeed, you are doing so, without even knowing it. You are not free, however, to declare who someone else is, or who they must be.

Neale Donald Walsch

#16. Make room for who you are by knowing who you're not.

Abby Fabiaschi

#17. I love stories of female empowerment. I love stories of, "Hey, I'm an ordinary person." "No, you're not!" I love stories about not knowing you have it in you, but when called to task, you rise and you find out who you are.

Joseph McGinty Nichol

#18. Real misfortune is not just a matter of being hungry and thirsty; it is a matter of knowing that there are people who want you to be hungry and thirsty

Ousmane Sembene

#19. Maybe it's important to open up I people- people who are right there with you, not some thousand miles away in another universe. Or maybe it's something else. Maybe I should just settle for not knowing. Maybe it's just good to know that you're not the only one who doesn't know.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#20. I want to avoid people, because there's only one thing worse than being homeless, and that's people who are not, knowing that you are.

Craig Stone

#21. We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#22. Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

Yanni

#23. Nothing limits you like not knowing your limitations.

Tom Hayes

#24. Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who you are and whether or not they want to read your stories.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#25. It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.

Cormac McCarthy

#26. Where you've been or haven't been does not make you who you are." -Faolan

Brittany L. Engels

#27. When you are stuck in a group of people who merely trade turns at talking about themselves instead of actually conversing, it could be a matter of their not really knowing how to converse as opposed to being too small-minded or excessively Facebooked.

Carolyn Hax

#28. She is the sort of person who can do things she doesn't know yet. There are things you know you know and you know you don't know and you don't know you know and you don't know you don't know. She may not know what she does know.

Thomm Quackenbush

#29. I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

David Levithan

#30. I believe the best influence you can have is not by being preachy, but by trying to live. For example, knowing you're not perfect, but trying to treat everyone kind and accepting everyone for who they are.

Paul Butcher

#31. Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.

Jodi Picoult

#32. Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

Orson Welles

#33. The moment is not over when you have found the right fit in your style. Begin with knowing who you really are and apologize for nothing. There are no mistakes when it comes to personal expression.

Steven Cuoco

#34. 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

#35. Never let anyone tell you your worth. It is not that you are worthless, it is them who is incapable of knowing it.

Namrata

#36. Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it. (p. 163)

Geneen Roth

#37. It is wisdom to know who you are, but not to the point of excluding who you might become.

James Rozoff

#38. Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#39. [I]t is through knowing who you are not that the greatest obstacle to truly knowing yourself is removed.

Eckhart Tolle

#40. You on the floor in a fugue state, me not knowing what to do. It's remarkable how high-functioning you are, for an insane person. I'm the only one who gets to see you on the floor.

Jonathan Franzen

#41. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
'I am bored.' Who knows this?
'I am angry, sad, afraid.' Who knows this?
You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

Eckhart Tolle

#42. Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

Mila Kunis

#43. A person who does not know himself... can not commit to another person. Without being genuine to yourself you are unable to be genuine to anyone else.

Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble

#44. Knowing that you are perfect as you are does not mean you will no longer grow. It means that everything you've experienced up to this moment has made you who you are, and that is perfection. Tomorrow, you will be an even more perfect version of yourself.

Julie-Anne

#45. Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

Nina Garcia