Birth Quote by Mary Olier

“I wanted, then, to become what I most admired, what now seemed most real to me. I wanted to be that exalted, complicated presence…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“I realized that my time in this place had come to an end; now that my schooldays were over, I no longer belonged here.…

— Peter Ackroyd

“It starts out young - you try not to be different just to survive - you try to be just like everyone else -…

— Douglas Coupland

“I hated when people thought they knew everything there was to know about a person. There was no room to be anything different in…

— Shana Norris

“Sometimes you had to be who you were and endure what happened to you, and to you alone, before you could understand the first…

— Kathleen Winter

“I thought I was just catching up to everyone else, but it turned out I overshot the mark and had begun to launch myself…

— Clive Treadwell

“But something happened when I got out into the world, something that changed me. It was the reconnection of being at one with yourself…

— Jellis Vaes

“I wasn't always who I am now. No one ever is. I've spent my entire lifetime becoming who I am. Finally, I'm here and…

— Derek Landy

“I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made…

— Jane Devin

“My world has changed so much. Everything around me has perceptibly shifted in a direction I hadn’t seen coming. The people around me, the…

— Cacey Hopper

“I would wish it on no one to be me. Only I am capable of being myself. To know so much, to have seen…

— Robert Walser

“I wish I would've learned earlier on to be myself and express what mattered to me and how I actually felt about things.”

— Melanie Shankle