Cassadee Pope Quotes

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

I design therefore I become.

I want to reclaim who I am.

Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

I have faced up to what I am.

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

I've had a lot of opportunities to grow inside and out as a performer, artist, and a woman.

I came into 'The Bachelor' not ready to be me, and I ended up embracing me.

When you're young and starting out, a lot of artists think they know exactly who they are. There are others who come out in someone else's skin. They learn to take it off bit-by-bit and work out the core of what they're trying to say.

When I went into the conservatory at 17, then I was able to open up and accept everything about myself and show my feminine side as well as my masculine.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

Now, as I move through my fifties, I can be professional and domestic, creative and intellectual, patient and urgent. I have learned that we should never settle for someone else's definition of who we can be. Growing to this age, I realize, is kind of like feeling your voice deepen. It's still your voice, but it has more substance, and it sounds like it knows its own origins.

i can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!

From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.

I think part of growing up is not actually finding a fixed idea of who you are, but rather being like, "Oh, wait. I'm different all the time. I'm going to change every second and grow and be fluid." And that's okay.

I had been in a place where I was letting too many people dictate who I should be and what I should be, and I was trying to make everybody happy to the point where it was just killing me. I'd completely lost myself. It's kind of funny now that people think I've completely changed myself for Marilyn Manson, when this is actually the first time in my life that I took a stand and said, "This is who I am and this is who I've always wanted to be, and I'm finally with somebody who lets me be who I want to be."

A women who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations.

The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself.

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

Loving the process. I learn it over and again and in different ways. I'm speaking particularly to the musical process, but I definitely think that this lesson transcends. Loving the life process. Loving the process of becoming stronger by experiencing something that makes me feel unsteady. The process of speaking and living my truth and making my own path.