Pir Vilayat Khan Quotes

Yes, what is it like? Certainly not like she dreamed. But maybe that's okay. We want what we want. At home, she works herself into a frenzy worrying about what she isn't--and perhaps loses track of just where she is.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

There's who you think you are and who you want to be, and then who you actually are.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.

Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

I have become my own father.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.

You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.