Quotes about Identity

WHO DO I NEED TO BE FOR THIS SITUATION NOT TO BOTHER ME?

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. —André Gide; French author, Nobel Prize winner

One day you might realize you can no longer remember the names of the people whose approval you o desperately thought you would die without

The Big Snooze will do everything it can to stop you from changing and growing, especially since you're attempting to obliterate the very identity that you and everyone else has come to know as "you.

Success is not about where you're at, it's about where, and who, you decide you're going to be.

Take a deep breath, trust your desires, and embrace the fact that your quest for riches is a quest to become more of who you truly are. We don't all desire to live a huge, fancy life or solve world hunger, that's not what this is about.

You are a badass. You were one when you came screaming into this planet and you are one now. The Universe wouldn't have bothered with you otherwise. You can't screw up so majorly that your badassery disappears. It is who you are. It's who you will always be. It's not up for negotiation.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and I think, Aren't we kind of the same age? You lose perspective. Or being offered the part of a woman with a 17-year-old child. It's like, "I'm not old enough to have a 17-year-old!" And then you realize, well, yeah, you are.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

but the truth is that it is only in knowing who you are at your core and staying true to yourself that you can possibly see the difference between passion and real love.

Instead of measuring my success and value by my own standards, I was measuring it by how others perceived me.