Cheryl Strayed Quotes

I hope that every film I make has something to offer in the area of making people feel either vindicated or different in terms of who they are.

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

I am who I am, a Southie.

When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.

I had a beautiful mother and a famous father, and I didn't know where I fit in.

People better get used to the idea that I exist.

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!

For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.

In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a category. They all sort of realized, 'Hmm, you don't really look like a soprano. You're not really a character belter.'

I don't know if I feel like an outsider or an insider; I just feel like I always did. I don't have one of those stories where I felt like no one understood me.

It took me a while to accept everything, but I am so grateful for the way my parents raised me. It's my life, it's unique, and I think it's so meaningful to me as I get older.

Charlotte means a lot to me. This city has embraced me - allowed me to be who I am, allowed me to grow as a man.

I often feel like an outsider wherever I go, so I'm always attracted to stories about identity and the meaning of home.

I am who I am, and I think that's why I'm very grateful to be an Arizona Cardinal: because the team that picked me, they picked me.

I always feel like you should walk into a room or walk down the street, like you belong. That's the philosophy that I always try to subscribe to.

My friends and family all know me, and that's the important thing.

I always felt more connected with people who are proud of who they are.

Everyone reads Harper Lee personally. For me, 'Mockingbird' was about admitting my own hyphenated identity - about loving and hating my world, about both belonging and not belonging to the community I came from.

I'm blessed to have a family that always supported me being me.

I have my family, my loved ones and they love me for who I am.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simply to be, without defenses or desires. I will appreciate the flow of life for what it is-my own true self. I will notice those moments of intimacy with myself, when I feel that “I am” is enough to sustain me forever. I will lie on the grass at one with nature, expanding until my being fades into the infinite.