Two small words, “I am,” carry a lifetime inside them. We use them to name our moods and our roles, our flaws and our greatness, our doubts and the quiet courage of simply being here. These quotations gather many voices, each finding a different way to say “I am,” and to discover who they are becoming.

“I am, I said.” ~ Neil Diamond

“Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.” ~ William Shakespeare

“I am a verb.” ~ Ulysses S. Grant

“I’m old. I’m young. I’m intelligent. I’m stupid.” ~ Warren Beatty

“I think, therefore I am.” ~ René Descartes

“I myself am… strange and unusual.” ~ Michael McDowell

“I am just too much.” ~ Bette Davis

“I exist as I am, that is enough.” ~ Walt Whitman

“I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I am the only real truth I know.” ~ Jean Rhys

“I am such a ham.” ~ Bob Hope

“I am a thing of beauty.” ~ Frank Sinatra

“If I am not I, who will be?” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“I am different, not less.” ~ Temple Grandin

“You are one with the great ‘I AM’ of the universe.” ~ Robert Collier, Riches Within Your Reach!