Margaret Halsey Quotes

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

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

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

One creates oneself.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

We're all trying to figure out on a daily basis what kind of person to be, aren't we? I am, at least.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.

Identity is something that you are constantly earning.