Camila Mendes Quotes

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

You discover who you truly are only when you live alone.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

I discovered myself!

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.

I've realised that I actually like being by myself.

I find it quite useful to be alone when I'm making music, but also in general, in life.

I hit a brick wall one day, and I spent a lot of time by myself learning about me and who I am and what I want and don't want.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

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