"The most common form of despair is not being who you are."

— Søren Kierkegaard

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

— J.K. Rowling

"Success is not in what you have, but who you are."

— Bo Bennett

"You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."

— C.S. Lewis

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."

— Alan Watts

"A man is but what he knows."

— Francis Bacon

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."

— Carl Jung

"You are your best thing."

— Toni Morrison

"The ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself."

— Alan Watts

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

— Joseph Campbell