George Saunders Quotes

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

The true self, once discovered, is the source of creativity, intelligence and personal growth. No external solution has such power.

For if the talent or individuality is there, it should be expressed. If it doesn't find its way out into the air, it can be turned inward and gnaw like the fox at the Spartan boy's belly.

Ironically, it was because I was raised as a Muslim in the South, that I realised the value in being true to who you really are. I've just got so many things going on inside. I don't know how to resolve all of them other than being true to who I am.

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

In every role, a part of me gets to come out.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

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

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!