Wilson Cruz Quotes

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

I did a lot of struggling with my identity trying to figure out who the heck I was. I had to face my demons.

One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am I going to live in a shell, or am I just going to hide from everybody and not do anything? I don't think that's the way I should live my life, and I'm not going to do it.

I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

It took me a while to find myself.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Everybody should be affected by their own realities in their own lives, their own struggles in their own lives. It makes us who we are, and we all know that.

It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

My music is 100-percent me, so it's just who I developed into as a woman. I feel really grateful that I waited until I did because I feel like I really found who I was by doing that.