Meghan Daum Quotes

The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work.

Absolutely, I think coming out has allowed me to align who I am with with my creative self.

I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.

I've made peace with the fact that the World Cup will not define me. Yes, it would be nice to add that to what's been a very enjoyable career, but I know it won't define me as a person or cricketer.

I am what I am. I don't regret anything.

You have to be satiated with just being authentically yourself at the end of the day.

Especially as an artist, the creative freedom we have makes us who we are. We're human beings-we're gonna mess up sometimes. I definitely feel like people should continue being who they are. As long as you're staying true to who you are, that's super important.

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity...and here I am, reborn.

You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

I don't have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am.

We can carry the burden of hurt throughout our lives. We can make the hurt that we have experienced the defining aspect of our stories of ourselves. That means that somebody else gets to say who we are, somebody else gets to decide how we feel, and somebody else gets to decide how we see the world. Forgiveness not only frees us from the burden of someone else's opinion of us, but it allows us the opportunity to really write a story of ourselves that we can love, enjoy, relish, and live into.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

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.

It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

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

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

The more forcibly I'm made aware of the fact that I'll never be the kind of storyteller I most admire, the less I'll be troubled by that. I'll probably just become more myself.

I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.

I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice, as a writer, y'know? And a world I could call my own.