Lily Collins Quotes

Your false self is always that which is passing away. Your true self doesn't go up or down, it's constant - it's a rock. Once you learn how to live there, what others say about you, your failures or successes - these don't send you on a roller coaster ride down or up. It's really the only way to peace. There's no other way to be peaceful except in the true self.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.

Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

But regardless of our circumstances, they do not define us - not unless we give in and let them. Circumstances never determine who we are; they reveal who we are.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

The process of growth is, it seems, the art of falling down. Growth is measured by the gentleness and awareness with which we once again pick ourselves up, the lightness with which we dust ourselves off, the openness with which we continue and take the next unknown step, beyond our edge, beyond our holding, into the remarkable mystery of being.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

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

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

I have weathered many different storms and I know who I am and my friends know who I really am.

I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

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 don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.