Lauren Kate Quotes

The question of what we are can only be answered by ourselves. We each decide what we are by the life choices we make. How we were made, who are parents are, where we are from, the color of our skin, who we choose to love, all those things do not define us. Our actions define us, and will keep defining us until even after death.

Because it's our choices that makes us who we are.

You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.

You choose who you want to be.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

...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.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

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

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.

Life is best when lived your way and not as a negation of what you don't like.

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

I have a right to live my life and just be me with whoever I choose. We just do the best we can.

We only get to be one person; we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.

"What makes a man a man?" a friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman - no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that's what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can't do that.

Whatever I do, I do it because I want to do it and because it's completely, 100% me.

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.