Daniel Pennac Quotes

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

What's happened in my career has been about knowing myself and realizing my flaws are my strengths, and to embrace them; to access what I'm really good at, and what I'm not so good at; and tune out the voices that get inside your head and make you think you can't do something.

I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

I need to be able to face things.

I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside.

There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully.

Once you really know yourself, can't nobody tell you nothing about you.

I woke up one day and thought, 'Enough is enough with bullying myself.' The war is within you, and that's also where it's won. You just have to tackle your insecurities and then let them go.

I don't hold on to fear as much as I used to, because I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating. It's very empowering, and I've learned a lot of that from Jay-Shawn Carter-Z, because his approach to life is very internal. It's a very good lesson to learn.

Perhaps one of the most important lessons that I continue to have reinforced is to always have faith and believe in yourself. To never lose sight of who you are and to know yourself.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

The first step is you have to say that you can.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.

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.

We have to transcend our own negativity and vulnerability and work from our own inner security.

I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.