Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.

Like my freedom. If I feel like I'm being controlled, I get crazy. Because I know I made it this far by following my intuition. I think people like who I am, and I like who I am, and I want to be a better version of myself every single day. So stop controlling me!

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

I want to be defined by my own essence.

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

The big message is, you're the star in your own life. You don't have to change; you are who you are. Go and do what you want to do.

I want to inspire people to follow their own dream, not what the world wants for them.

I have lived life enough to know that I define myself.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

I grow beyond my family's limitations and live for myself. It is my turn now.

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.

She's been everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own.

You weren't created to be unhappy in order to keep everyone else happy. Run your own race.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

Live for yourself... there's no one else more worth living for...

Don't let other people decide who you are.