Marisha Pessl Quotes

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.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.

Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.

By showing that you don't have to lose yourself, maybe someone else will feel some sort of comfort.

You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it.

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

Our goal as women should be to discover who we are and not who we think we should be or who the world wants us to be. It's not our responsibility to be arm candy!

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

You change the world by being yourself.

Trying to give an individual a voice has always kind of been my mission in my life. As an actor, I've always seen that was something that needed to be done. You need to find that voice inside of you so that you can stand up and be who you really are.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.

I want to reclaim who I am.

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.