Vita Sackville-West Quotes

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

Hima is Hima only. I haven't changed.

I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel like I've found what separates me, and I always try to stay in that when I write. It took me a long time to discover that, so I try to be protective.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

I started writing for myself because I know how to write for myself. I know how to show what I can do.

You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

I feel blessed because not only my character is, but I, myself, can be a role model for people to show that is okay to be your own unique self.

Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.

The only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.

If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

If you are just yourself, that's when people start gravitating towards you because nobody else can be you except you. Be authentic, don't give up, and start today.

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

Being called a person, as such, indicates that one should only have one character and be true to it.

Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get around to being the particular poet or the particular monk they are intended to be by God. They never become the man or the artist who is called for by all the circumstances of their individual lives. They waste their years in vain efforts to be some other poet, some other saint...They wear out their minds and bodies in a hopeless endeavor to have somebody else's experiences or write somebody else's poems.

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.

It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the version of yourself that you're supposed to be - like in God's eyes. It doesn't matter if you're half crazy, or eccentric, or whatever it is - that you have to be true to who you were born to be.

No one will ever be as good at being you as you. So start there. Perfect is boring.

Styles tend to not only separate men - because they have their own doctrines and then the doctrine became the gospel truth that you cannot change. But if you do not have a style, if you just say: Well, here I am as a human being, how can I express myself totally and completely? Now, that way you won't create a style, because style is a crystallization . That way, it's a process of continuing growth.

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.