Lauren Ambrose Quotes

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

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'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

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.

I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

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.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

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.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

I came to love, I came into my own.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

I'm okay with myself. I had times when I was 15 about 'Who I am?' and 'What am I?' and where I want to go, and that's behind me.

In the end I'm the only one who knows me.

I've fully embraced who I am. I stopped fighting with people and just come to realize, 'This is me. This is all of me.'

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.