Miranda Kerr Quotes

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.

I'm still the same cat I always was.

If you want to write from life, you can't really write a story. People are always changing, and I think if we didn't look the same day-to-day, and our self weren't always in our body, would we even be the same? The continuity is in our bodies.

I never want to change. I get nervous about that... people thinking that I've changed just because the circumstances of my life have.

I know, for a fact, that I'm a very different person on my own than I am with someone else. We are different with each other. These things are constantly adjusted. And that's true of humans. That's not just true of famous people.

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.

You can't help but change a little bit, but on the inside I'm still completely the same person.

I don't think a lot of people are like, "I'm just quirky!" Or if they are, it's a stage they're going through as they figure out who they are. I never felt like I was choosing roles that were quirky.

It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.

The idea that you live your life in phases - I've never bought that. I feel like I'm the same person who sat in at the draft board in 1965, I'm the same person who joined a fraternity, I'm the same person who got an MFA at Bennington, and I'm the same person who founded Weather Underground. My values are still intact.

But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.

Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.

You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.

People are not their behaviors.

People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world.

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.