Ellen Hopkins Quotes

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

Your appearance shouldn't define who you are, and that's what I like, the contrast between people looking like the opposite of what they truly are deep inside.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

What's in your soul is in your soul.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.