Susan Cain Quotes

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.

I was a highly sensitive kid, sort of an old soul, and I felt like a lot of people in my peer group didn't fully understand me, or I couldn't fully be myself. I just wasn't engaged in a way that was fulfilling me.

Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not to be afraid of that when that happens. I am not trying to obliterate myself and completely hide within the images like I used to.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don't know why that was.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.

It's not easy to talk about myself at all.

My whole life has been about figuring out the balance between knowing who I am and being who I am and accepting that people will come to me with all sorts of preconceptions.

I know what my identity is.

It's really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don't relate to.

All my life I've felt quite misunderstood because of my personality.

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.

That's something that is important to me, that people know me and understand me.