Kehlani Quotes

I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

I don't need anyone to validate me.

What I try to do is live with myself and please me. If I can't do that, I can't please anybody else or live with anybody else.

People often ask me, 'Who is your role model?' and it sounds a bit cliche, but I've been trying to be my own model.

I know that I can do myself better than anybody else can.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

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

You alone are enough.

I'm just doing me, and to me, that's what got me this far.

I think it's always a really stupid thing to base your achievement on someone else. I just want to base it on myself... do something that I can be proud of, and then I'll be happy.

I thought, 'O.K., if I'm a valuable person and an independent entity, then I don't have to worry about what people think of me. I can reach out now.'

I'm happy with myself. I respect myself. And I know that no man, no jeans, no scale, and no booker is in control of my future - I am.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

You have enough people against you... be for yourself.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.

I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

You should never need a guy to make you feel complete.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think; I don't need or want anything to change that.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.