Who - Quotes
You have to surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you.
It`s fun to know what I want to do - you know, when I grow up. I have friends who say, "Oh, maybe I`ll be an astronaut or whatever." But it`s cool to want to do this forever.
There`s no point in my taking on a relationship with someone who thinks like me or laughs at what I laugh at. I enjoy being with someone who can offer me the opposite.
Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.
There is nothing wrong with being scared [...] so long as you don`t let it change who you are.
It feels strange, and false, to be 21, and talk about myself as if I have a real concept of who I am.
Our present swarms with traces of our past. We are histories of ourselves, narratives. I am not this momentary mass of flesh reclined on the sofa typing the letter a on my laptop; I am my thoughts full of the traces of the phrases that I am writing; I am my mother`s caresses, and the serene kindness with which my father calmly guided me; I am my adolescent travels; I am what my reading has deposited in layers in my mind; I am my loves, my moments of despair, my friendships, what I`ve written, what I`ve heard; the faces engraved on my memory. I am, above all, the one who a minute ago made a cup of tea for himself. The one who a moment ago typed the word "memory" into his computer. The one who just composed the sentence that I am now completing. If all this disappeared, would I still exist? I am this long, ongoing novel. My life consists of it.
Reality is often very different from what it seems. The Earth appears to be flat but is in fact spherical. The sun seems to revolve in the sky when it is really we who are spinning.
Don`t take your intuitions and ideas to be "natural": they are often the products of the ideas of audacious thinkers who came before us.
Slow, technical, cultural, and artistic advances made by innumerable workshops of painters and artisans were necessary before the Sistine Chapel was possible. But in the end, it was Michelangelo who painted it.