Who Am I Quotes

“I am a complicated person with a simple life.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“...that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I was—I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I’d never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn’t know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn’t scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future, and maybe that’s why it happened right there and then, that strange red afternoon.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Who are we without our addictions; without our media-induced hungers? So often the voices we hear echoing in our mind are not our own but that of our influencers. Isolation, while arguably going against human nature, is essential for mental and emotional health. Solitude is a detoxification of all that distorts our personality and misguides our path in life. It allows us to filter out the foreign opinions and hear our own voice—reach our authentic character—and practice fidelity to self.”
― L.M. Browning, Seasons of Contemplation: A Book of Midnight Meditations

“The bulk of life is discovering who you are—and then reconciling that with who you wish you were.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“In life we do not attract what we want, we attract who we are.”
― Moffat Machingura, How I Kissed Heartbreak Goodbye

“That is who I am supposed to be, how I am identified and recorded for all time, but I am neither of those things”
― Cecelia Ahern, A Place Called Here

“If you can accept the indescribable nature of your true identity, you unveil the mystery of life.”
― Akemi G, Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records

“It's okay to not know who you are and what you want. Those with the answers are usually very happy in their own stuck-ness”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“I am not me. I am not my body. I am my love, my kindness, and my service.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Who am I and why am I here?
Has just become my greatest fear.”
― Mohit.K.Misra

“Do not let go of your right to make your own decisions, because by doing so you are letting go of who you really are.”
― Sameh Elsayed

“Who am I?
What is my mission?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“I am not pretty; I am not ugly. I am not true, and I am not false. I am just me—a reality, a conception, and not a misinterpretation.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Am I a prisoner of my thoughts?
Am I a prisoner of my societal conformity?
Who am I?
How conscious am I?
Am I conscious or obnoxious?”
― Debasish Mridha

“Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Som så ofta när jag var i den åldern undrade jag vem jag var, och vad det egentligen var som tittade på ansiktet i spegeln. Om ansiktet jag tittade på inte var jag, och det visste jag att det inte var eftersom jag förblev mig själv vad som än hände med mitt ansikte, vad var det i så fall som var jag? Och vad var det som tittade?”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I am not for or against anyone or anything; I am just kind.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Moksha (ultimate liberation) cannot be attained until purity arises. To attain purity one has to realize ‘Who am I?”
― Dada Bhagwan

“I am not what you are. I am only what I can see. I am me.”
― Debasish Mridha

“All religions are correct but the religion that searches for ‘Who am I?’ and ‘Who is the doer?’ is on the last final path of religion. And which knows this ‘Who’ is the final religion.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“It is not possible to know ‘Who am I?’ by ‘doing’. ‘Doing’ (anything), requires egoism, and where there is egoism, ‘Who am I’ cannot be known.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Who is doing this? Who am I? What is all this? Who is the doer? Who is the nimit (instrumental doer) of this? If all these remain present ‘at a time’ exactly the way it is, then that is considered shuddha upayog (pure focused applied awareness of the Self, the Soul).”
― Dada Bhagwan

“I am Chandubhai’ is an illusion itself and from that are karmas charged. When does ‘charging’ of new karmas stop? When one attains the exact awareness of ‘who I am?’.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“If you want to know the answer to ‘Who am I?’, then you will have to go to a Gnani purush [the enlightened one]. The Gnani Purush will give you Knowledge of your real Self [Who Am I] in the presence of the egoism. Thereafter your accounts (karmic) will be settled [& things will start falling in place].”
― Dada Bhagwan