If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.John Bingham
Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.Michael Josephson
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.Gail Lumet Buckley
I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age was that he had lived most of his life in England, his Jewish wife had died, and he married a non-Jewish woman who was my grandmother.Morris Gleitzman
My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience.Amanda Seales
Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have to tell you, I got all of my attributes from them, obviously, the tangibles, the intangibles. Particularly my work ethic, my dedication.Bruce Smith
I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face.Franz Kafka
Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. It's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.David Goggins
Become who you are. Do what only you can do. Be the master and the sculptor of yourself.Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't go to the white party, the blue party, the pink party, the penny party, I ain't at nobody's party. Steve Harvey going home.Steve Harvey
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.Thomas Mann
You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets.Bob Dylan
I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.James Carr
Who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read…Each life is an encyclopedia, a library.Italo Calvino
Yet, if I could start over, I was sure I would do the exact same things again. Because that was me.Haruki Murakami
Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.David Lynch
Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.E. Joseph Cossman
Most people suffer from the fear of finding themselves alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.Rollo May