Patricia Heaton Quotes

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

I came to love, I came into my own.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.

We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

Everything I want to do, and to accomplish, is on the other side of the universe. That's peace of mind, energy, freedom. And I'm making myself ready to go, joyfully and willingly. I think I'm ready to be everybody's friend, and to do anything for anybody. It's heavy.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.

I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

I have achieved an inner freedom.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

It's all about, no matter where you come from, that you can be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve. I want people to learn to love who they are. Because that's the hardest thing in life, being able to see yourself the way other people see you.

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

I want to tell everyone that no matter what's keeping them from being their authentic self to hold on to the hope that there will be an end to that road. There will be a life where they can live their true self.

Getting to be authentic is so liberating.

If you stop trying to restrict yourself by defining yourself and love in other people's terms, it's the most liberating thing.