Awakening Quote by Thomas Merton

Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and…

— Thomas Merton

We're all impostors to ourselves. By that I mean that we know instinctively, intimately, the difference between whom we are inside and who we…

— Walter Kirn

Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.

— John le Carre

In the end we become who we pretend to be, so we must be careful about who we pretend to be.

— Anonymous

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if…

— Lindsay Lohan

Accept who you are, sometimes you just have to search within your soul for the real image in you; you can't pretend to be…

— Kemmy Nola

“Imagine looking in the mirror and not knowing who you are. An empty face staring back. No one. We rarely think about how much…

— Tal M. Klein

For most of my life, I’ve felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. This is who I am,…

— Steve Jobs

Give up the idea of being a person, that is all. You need not become what you are anyhow. There is the identity of…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Why is it that anyone can pretend to be someone there not and never be someone they are?

— Akeem

Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.

— Robert Breault

The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I…

— Matthew McConaughey