Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

There's a time in your life where you're not quite sure where you are. You think everything's perfect, but it's not perfect... Then one day you wake up and you can't quite picture yourself in the situation you're in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing anything in life, you can do it.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

I will never stop questioning. I will never stop wanting more and discovering other things and wanting to do other things. That will always be a part of me, and it's something I've come to terms with.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.

The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked... that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I have faced up to what I am.

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

To find the courage to do what I want to do for myself has been hard.

I just care about what I get to unearth and what makes me uncomfortable and what makes me grow because, ultimately, I just don't want to ever play it safe.

I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world - the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.

I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.

It's crazy what can happen in a decade and how much you can grow as a person and as a woman and truly find your voice.

Anybody is able to doubt me. I say, 'Come with your criticism to polish the diamond of the truth.' People need to wake up to their own power. Everybody has this nature.

We can all tend to get caught up in the complications of life that we create; we live life for other people. It's a harrowing moment when you're confronted with an end, and you have to make the choice to live your life for you.

Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.

A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.

The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.

To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.