Roles In Life Quotes

“We are all fragments of the Source that have chosen to have an experience outside of Source and play different roles in a theatrical play of sorts. Some will play heroes and some will play villains; without all the characters, there wouldn’t be a play to enjoy. No play lasts forever, as that would cease to be entertaining and become boring. When the play is over, the curtain will fall. When the curtain rises, all of the players will be holding hands and congratulating each other on their well-played characters.”
― Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

“I took on the shape of a girl.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“Condition a woman (or a man) to value submission above all other attitudes and you will produce a character type whose most readily expressed emotion will be sadness.”
― Sam Keen, Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man

“Here, Courtney, is your contribution to the anthology of my life.
Did you like that? The anthology of my life?
I just made it up.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I played the best role in my life. I had a great director.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“We assign roles to all the people in our life in an attempt to master it. The roles can be reasonable or preposterous. Either way, when we realise that others do not agree to the terms of the role we have assigned to them, we get upset. Is it their fault? Surely, they are simply following their own dreams. What matters is that we love the dreamer of the dream. It matters that we love people. We mustn’t invent roles for others because we think it will make us happy. Who are we to invent such things? Can the tiny piece of seaweed tell the vast ocean what it must do? What wills to grow, will grow. What wills to flow, will flow.”
― Donna Goddard, Faith

“A star is only possible with an audience. Everyone plays an important part in the play of life.”
― Eva Grayzel

“We are all always the heroes of our stories, or the villains--we never play a bit part.

[Édouard Manet]”
― Maureen Gibbon, The Lost Notebook of Édouard Manet

“Some people are born into roles. Others have roles thrust upon them.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Party Crasher

“We are all stuck in our own stories. And it is so easy to see someone through only one lens: the role they play in yours.

[Delphine Léger]”
― Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas

“The artist doesn't hide behind a role – not even the role of the artist.”
― Rod Judkins, Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths

“I don’t know where people go to get that rule, ‘Thou shalt be one thing and one thing only for thy entire life.”
― Cher, CHER

“It’s tempting to think of yourself as powerful when those around you are far less so, but compared to the simple fact of existence, to the power of life and how it hangs on, we are nothing.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Shards of a Broken Crown

“Every one of us has been called to be an actor in the drama of life and everyone has a role to play as well.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“ജീവിതം വിചിത്രമായൊരു തെരുവീഥിയാണ്.. ഒത്തുചേരലിനേക്കാൾ ഒഴിഞ്ഞുകൊടുക്കലുകളുടേയും അകന്നുമാറലുകളുടേയും തെറ്റിപിരിയലുകളുടേയും തിക്കുംതിരക്കുമാണാ തെരുവീഥിയിൽ നടക്കുന്നത്...!!”
― S K POTTEKAD

“ما المسألةُ إلّا مسألةُ أدوارٍ ومهامٍّ؛ تمرُّ المخلوقاتُ بمرحلةِ الرضاعةِ، ثمّ الطفولةِ، ثمّ مرحلةِ التلْمَذة. يسرقُ الفرْدُ فيكون سارقًا ثمّ يصبحُ سجينًا؛ يطرحُ الأسئلةَ فيكونُ فيلسوفًا؛ ويشاركُ في الحربِ فيكون جنديًّا؛ ويُلقىٰ به في عرين الأسودِ فيكونُ طريدةً وفريسةً ولا يبقى منه إلّا الذكرىٰ”
― Alexis Kouros, أبناء غوندوانا

“Perhaps all my shifts from room to room were just social camouflage, but that wouldn't convey the magic of catharsis. Every bed-bound woman saw in me what they needed most, mistaking a single part for a multifaceted whole. Of course for me that resulted in terrible frustration mottled with a wonderful joy. For who on Earth can shape-shift through such dramatic social roles if not the genderqueer? Everyone in the transgender revolution knows how it feels to be mistaken, their pronouns casualties of misassumption. And while I wish I could attest to some resolution, to be genderqueer is to be in the thick of it.”
― Alex Stitt, Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity

“Roles are not absolute, and neither are they forever. We pick a role up, and we can also let them go, if we know how to do that.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“Make no one your enemy.
We are all here together.
Simply allow the role you thought you had to play to fall away.
Offer it to be re-known in Oneness and play another choice.”
― Gwen Juvenal, Our New Story: Guides in the Garden Volume 1

“Sometimes we get very comfortable in the roles we are playing, and we find ways to continue seeing ourselves in those roles. People can often provide a feeling of support in their role by being attracted to groups of people who have similar interests or think in similar ways. As long as everyone agrees with what role they are playing, there need not be any conflict and we can all live together peacefully, right? But what happens when someone wants a little more flexibility. Maybe they are tired of feeling like a “victim” for a moment. Hmmm.
Here is where a lot of the conflict within our relationships can show up; when we are trying to keep people playing certain roles which keep us comfortable. After all, if one knows how to exist within this system then there is not so much confusion and they can go about their life as this role, and they do not have to spend their time trying to review their beliefs and find new ground.
But this can backfire due to loss of agility and flexibility. When someone is hiding deeply within one of these systems, oftentimes they do not see how if they tried to interact in the same way with a different group of people, they would quickly start learning some lessons about what they are creating. This is one reason why people can choose to hang out with others from very different backgrounds and energies. Attracting people into your life can assist you in identifying dissonance within you and loosening such solidly held identities. In this way, others can serve as a mirror. And this mirroring can serve as a way to freedom.
We can also use this same tool inside of ourselves to identify dissonance and to become reconciled.”
― Gwen Juvenal, Our New Story: Guides in the Garden Volume 1

“It appears that as we show up here on Earth, we promptly start wearing the masks that have been deeply ingrained within our social psyche. And while attacking the mask from the outside may grant us a fleeting glimpse of what lies beneath, the window of seeing beyond the mask is inevitably short-lived. In our natural response of wanting to feel safe, a mask or some type of personality or facade quickly emerges and assists us in interactions with ourselves and others.
But what happens if we didn’t need to attack the mask or facade in order to discover what lies beneath? What if we could simply claim and be with and be as that space and intelligence underneath? This simple shift in perspective releases the need to fight or battle with the masks we play with. It removes the power from them and ultimately honors the choices of how we wish to show up.
We can then perceive the mask as a part of the joy of this life. For how could we live this life without bodies, ideas, social constructs, and things? We are here actively engaged in a play. And within this play, a part of the joy of it all is us walking through it and deciding which masks we choose to wear.”
― Gwen Juvenal, "The Seed" Journal: A Space for Recording Your Soul Experiences and Expansive Journeys

“A man who recognizes his place is to be rewarded."
"And a woman who spurns hers is to be feared.”
― K.M. Mayville, A Cult of Questionable Motives