Sarah Dessen Quotes

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

I came to love, I came into my own.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

I'm going to hang out with people, and I'm going to explore myself, and I'm okay with that.

I've fully embraced who I am. I stopped fighting with people and just come to realize, 'This is me. This is all of me.'

It just gets easier in that you become more you in the process.

Once you really know yourself, can't nobody tell you nothing about you.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I feel more comfortable with myself now. I don't know if I feel sexier. I feel more whole.

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself.

Knowing who you are is confidence.

Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for.

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.