Patch Adams Quotes

One creates oneself.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

The gender is irrelevant; the identity is the one you should try and create for yourself by yourself, and the narrative of your own life becomes your own book.

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I've never allowed my political life, or my life as a basketball player, to define the totality of my humanity or my personality.

I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

I have lived life enough to know that I define myself.

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity and strength to proclaim, create, and evolve into who we know ourselves to be. It’s okay if your personal definition is in a constant state of flux as you navigate the world.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

It is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others-for their use and to our detriment.