Andrew Haigh Quotes

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

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

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

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.

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

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

I know how important it is to, you know, to be my own person.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I want to be defined by my own essence.