Olivia Wilde Quotes

The hand you hold the longest is your own.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

For a long time, I consciously tried to be a good person for others. Not anymore. Caring about other people keeps me in line, but I've decided to just be myself.

You weren't created to be unhappy in order to keep everyone else happy. Run your own race.

You should embrace who you are, and make the best person that you can be, not what somebody else wants you to be.

I’m a fan of the word selfish. Self. Ish. When I say I have gotten a lot more self-ish, I mean I am less concerned with what people think of me. I’m not worried about how I’m perceived. Selfish has always gotten a bad rap. You should do for you.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

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

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

I want to continue to be me and share with people.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

All I know is myself and I don't plan on changing that.

Being 'back in my body' means being able to do the things I love, but do them in the way I love, and in my way, and in my time, giving myself the opportunity to just be me.

Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in.

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

Whatever you want that others in your life can't give you, ask yourself how you can give it to yourself.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

She's been everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own.

Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else.