I'm Just a Person Quotes

“it’s not the child’s responsibility to teach the parent who they are; it’s the parent’s responsibility to learn who their child is. I”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“I cannot express how important it is to believe that taking one tiny-- and possibly very uncomfortable-- step at a time can ultimately add up to a great distance.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“The best gift you can give anyone is a well-lived life of your own.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“Why can so many of us only express our true feelings onto a blank slate: a diary page, the sky, an unconscious loved one, a tombstone? In”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“People have such a strong urge to make their mark here on earth, the final one being their tombstone.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“While you’re alive, you should feel alive. I thought about how tomorrow or a week from now, or whatever date people tell themselves is the big day—a party, an award show, a holiday—is no more important than the event of today. I thought: “Every day is the day.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“When I marveled over our compatibility and how easy things were with us, she said she believed that it was true that I loved and cared for her, and she tried always to assume that nothing I said or did was intentionally done to hurt her.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“When you think you have all the time in the world, hanging up on a loved one seems fine, something to fix later.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“For the first time, it occurred to me that our mother had birthed for each of us a buddy for life; that even with all the baggage and boundaries that come tangled with adulthood, we would simply always be defenseless children to each other. Delivering”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“Just because people say you need a certain thing for a successful life, doesn’t also mean that very thing can’t eventually be crapped out by your cat and then scooped up and tossed into a trash can and hauled away to a toxic landfill. Okay,”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“Instead of being someone who expects people to have all the strengths I think I need them to have, I resolved to try to become someone who focuses on the strengths they do have.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“They were my closest friends and were pursuing their dreams of working in film and television, and I was pursuing my dream of someday having a dream.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“he admitted that he had projected his ideas of how life should go based on the route he had taken himself. He said he never related to me or understood me because of this. He declared that he now realized it’s not the child’s responsibility to teach the parent who they are; it’s the parent’s responsibility to learn who their child is.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person: My year of death, cancer and epiphany

“Maybe we had all missed some ambiguous window of time when we could have salvaged some hope for a real connection.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“He declared that he now realized it’s not the child’s responsibility to teach the parent who they are; it’s the parent’s responsibility to learn who their child is. I”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“Whether you were male or female, my mother thought you should be able to swim before you could walk, have a firm handshake, and be able to throw a spiral with a football.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“Life is all about change, and if you can’t keep up with it, it’s going to leave you behind.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“I cannot express how important it is to believe that taking one tiny—and possibly very uncomfortable—step at a time can ultimately add up to a great distance.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“Why can so many of us only express our true feelings onto a blank slate: a diary page, the sky, an unconscious loved one, a tombstone?”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“He declared that he now realized it’s not the child’s responsibility to teach the parent who they are; it’s the parent’s responsibility to learn who their child is.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“It was like every day she was a blind person who had suddenly regained her sight.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“It’s not easy to keep moving forward with a positive outlook. I have the sense that I’m teetering on a very thin line. When I take my pills in the morning, I imagine them working toward ensuring the 93 percent chance at life that I have. When I eat ice cream or a piece of birthday cake, I remember the 7 percent and picture the tiny granules of sugar dispersing into some vulnerable area of my body, feeding any possible lingering, hungry cancer cells the surgeon missed. To an outsider, 7 percent might seem like a great prognosis. Tig, why are you even going into this? This is great news! And it is great news and a great prognosis. But when it’s your prognosis, you never forget the 7 percent. You just keep going.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“Instead of being someone who expects people to have all the strengths I think I need them to have, I resolved to try to become someone who focuses on the strengths they do have.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“technically, I was probably not what you would call lucky. But it sure felt right to call myself the luckiest unlucky person alive.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“The scary beauty of life is that cancer can be around the corner just as a Grammy nomination can be.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“laughing so hard that we became ugly people.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person