Kristin Hannah Quotes

For a long time, I was just a football player, but I want people to see me for who I am.

Love is not what you want, it is what you are. It is very important to not get these two confused. If you think that love is what you want, you will go searching for it all over the place. If you think love is what you are, you will go sharing it all over the place. The second approach will cause you to find what the searching will never reveal.

I think, as we go through life, we can sometimes, while still staying essentially true to ourselves, pick up mannerisms or modes of expression that are like curlicues. And there was a lot of that that I recognized sometimes. And I remembered, sometimes dimly, why those phrases felt so tasty to me, why that particular curl felt so good to me. But from my point of view now, it was almost inaccurate. It changed the meaning of what I was saying in a way that it seemed like a distortion.

You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So it's not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well ... which is easily done, because then you don't have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else.

If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

It is fine to imitate a being you respect, but you cannot become that very being. Imitation is something one does to grow and develop. It is not something you use to deceive yourself. You absorb in yourself the things you think have some kind of value, but even if you try to find the meaning about your true self you will not find anything. Because those who cannot accept their real self always fail.

We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

If you lose who you are, what do you have?

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

Everybody perceives me because of my career that I'm a movie star, or I'm this model, but I'm still the same person I was when I was a little girl.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.