You know that smell, when you put your nose up to a pine tree? I told her I did perfectly. No matter how long it has been, you always will. Like you are storing a part of that tree in your own body. ... Everything stays true. You are yourself, no matter how much you have to change.
~ Ramona Ausubel
I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.
~ Gillian Flynn
If you like who you are then losing yourself isn’t a choice! But if you don’t like yourself, get lost.
~ Stephen Richards
Your voice is the wildest thing you own,” Brooke says to me. “And you’re giving it away. You can’t see it. Your obsession is blinding you.” He is angry. He is talking in shorthand. “You’re losing yourself.
~ Terry Tempest Williams