Kelly Masterson Quotes

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself. and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.

Don't wait for people to tell you who you are. Show them.

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.

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

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.

Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity and strength to proclaim, create, and evolve into who we know ourselves to be. It’s okay if your personal definition is in a constant state of flux as you navigate the world.

Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself.

I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' " 'The way I want it?' " 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?' " 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.' " 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.' " 'Mess it up how?' " 'Forgot it.' " 'Forgot?' " 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else.

It is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others-for their use and to our detriment.

Pride comes from a place of real acknowledgment that somebody's actually living their life for themselves, and I want to be that example for my son.

Youre supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for Gods sake!

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

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

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 want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

I advise women to live their life to their fullest, invest in who you want to be and live it well.

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

One creates oneself.

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.