Anne Lamott Quotes

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.

No matter what you do in life, it's always a struggle, to first of all find who you are.

I do love the idea of people at a certain time in their lives when they're questioning, figuring out who to be. I find that interesting, but honestly, I think it's like that at every time in your life.

I think at some point during everyone's life, you finally figure yourself out. I haven't even done that yet. I'm still learning who I am.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

It took me a while to find myself.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

It's an interesting thing when you discover something about yourself. To go: 'Wow, I'm not the person I thought I was. I'm in the middle of something and I can't actually deal with it.'

One of my problems is to find the self.

You don't just wake up one day and decide who you are. I hope that people see that it's okay not to have labels nor label anyone else. Step back. We're all just trying to figure it out.

You have to go through a mental and emotional process to recognize who you really are. I finally recognized that I cannot be defined by one country.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

It's something I've enjoyed since being a kid, the fantasy of it, the imagining I'm someone other than who I am. I've always felt claustrophobic in one sense of identity. If anything, I've had to work to develop a sense of my own identity. I used to really hate it when people defined me.

I moved to Europe and was able to take time and really explore who I was and who I wanted to be. I needed that time for myself to really do that self-exploration and get back in touch with my roots.

Over the course of your life, you realize more and more who you are and how you want to spend your time. And it became clearer and clearer that I was very unhappy as an actress and didn't feel comfortable in my own skin. When I was younger, I thought it was because I wasn't successful enough.

When I started, I was very unsure of who I was. There were a lot of things in the songs that I didn't realize I was saying. But more and more, it fell into place... I got more comfortable in my skin.

I went through so many phases when I was young - surfer girl, tom boy, punk - but they weren't mistakes, just moments.

'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.

Me finding my confidence took me a while, but now I love that I went through everything I did before to get to where I am now.

That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.

Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.

You're trying to figure out who you are when you're younger. However, once you've found yourself, you run your race, and you run in your own lane.

You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.

I would have been an archaeologist or something, maybe a historian. There are a lot of things I would have liked to have done differently, but everything that happened to me made me the person I am today. No matter how negative it seemed at the time or whatever hardship it seemed to have been at that time, Im just the sum of all those amazing experiences.