“To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.”

“There are certain mysteries, certain secrets in my own work, which even I don't understand, nor do I try to do so.... Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if – as nearly always happens – a critic's explanations serve to increase the general obscurity that’s all to the good. French poets are particularly helpful in this respect.”

Georges Braque (1882–1963) French painter and sculptor

“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

“Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“There is no peace of mind without finding yourself. Know yourself, or just find the location of your own soul.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The thoughts we choose to act upon define us to others, the ones we do not define us to ourselves.”

Yahia Lababidi (1973)

“Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

“When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself”

Earl Nightingale (1921–1989) American motivational speaker

“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

“If you don't get out there and define yourself, you'll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others”

Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States