Ellen Greene Quotes

We should go after our dreams and not be apologetic about it, but it's scary. Whether you want to work or not, you have to do what makes you a fuller person. You have to love yourself.

I still have dreams, but instead of having them written on a little piece of paper, I live a little bit of them every day.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

It's all about, no matter where you come from, that you can be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve. I want people to learn to love who they are. Because that's the hardest thing in life, being able to see yourself the way other people see you.

Live the life you've dreamed.

I now know that my dreams and my identity are only mutually exclusive if I don't try.

It is going to take a very brave man to love me.

You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.

The first step is you have to say that you can.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

The minute you feel secure about yourself and own the fact your dreams are honest true, other things fix themselves.

It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public.

I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where you are or who you are. I think that's why people feel connected.

You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

I want to inspire through example. I hope my books motivate others to open doors and windows that will help them to embrace their own truth, light and joy.

I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.

I came to love, I came into my own.

I have come to accept the real me. I have come to love the real me. I now celebrate the real me.

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.