Being myself Quote by Anonymous

Did it surprise you that I am not who you thought I was? Did it surprise you to find that I dont exactly stand…

— Ana Chable

I always thought that I was me — but no, I was you and never knew it.

— Rumi

Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.

— Jodi Picoult

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their…

— Ralph Ellison

I guess I was so blinded by who I wanted you to be, that I didn't see who you really were.

— Rachel Copeland

I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with…

— Alberto Giacometti

My biggest mistake was expecting you to be everything I THOUGHT you could be, instead of ACCEPTING who you really were

— Sonya Parker

It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried…

— Ralph Ellison

“I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time…

— Ralph Ellison

I feel like [throughout] my entire career and life, that I've been judged by people who really did not know me. But I definitely…

— Nicki Minaj

I just didn't care what other people thought so much - because they were always going to think lowly of me and I actually…

— Paterson Joseph

I want to show people that I'm not what everybody thought I was.

— Gerald Green