Sharon Lawrence Quotes

I'm a firm believer that people find their own passions.

I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.

I want an identity outside of my work.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

I just live my life.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

I think what my 42 years of life has given me is just how important it is to live your own life.

What I am trying to do is create a space for people to explore what they want to be, as opposed to fit into a label that they have been given.

Every act is an act of self definition.

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody.

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

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.