Quotes About Self

We all want to be someone else. And sometimes we succeed in convincing ourselves we can be. But it doesn't last, and our true selves, broken and scarred, always win out in the end.

When did I stop being me?

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it

I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.

90/93-year-old Jacob wonders as he gazes at his aged reflection, 'When did I stop being me?

stared at him for a long time. If he wanted to end his search for the beast, he need look no further than a mirror.

It is now. But a trip like this? You will find something to fill it with. A truth of your own, that you discover on your own.

Sometimes, I don't notice I'm singing.

don't mistake a new place for a new you.

Sometimes trust isn't something you can just choose to do even if it makes sense. All my life the only reliable person, the one I could count on, the one who hasn't abandoned me, is me.

Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.

I can't be bound by a past self I don't remember.

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.

It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself

Being self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside. It starts with the rest of the world and leads back to you.

I always thought I was different.

Cuando no puedes salvarte a ti mismo o a tu corazón, ayuda ser capaz de salvar las apariencias.

There was something really great about being able to put something out into the world—a song, an introduction, even my voice—and let people make of it what they wanted. I didn't have to worry about how I looked, or if the image of me people had fit who I really was.

It's all about you, Colie. She touched one finger to her temple, tap tap tap. Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine. There is something infectious about confidence. And for that one moment, with my eyebrows burning and my eyes watering, I believed. And good hair never hurt either.

There's something just obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.