Kelli O'Hara Quotes

I think I look more like me than my father's daughter now.

I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own.

Basically, we are all different and we all have something to learn and it doesn't mean people need to change who you are but one should be open to new things and, above all, tolerance and understanding are essential for growth and happiness.

Being a dad has made me more aware of myself. I can see all of my virtues and flaws. They become glaringly clear when my daughter communicates with me in the same ways that I communicate with her. I can really tell where and when I went wrong.

we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.

I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself. But then on the other hand, the way I do my work, I always try to only completely focus on my work, so when I do my work I'm only interested in my character. So I don't have an idea of what it means for my career. So this is why I don't feel like I need to be discovered, because I feel like even without being discovered, I will be fine.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.

It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.

I think everyone deals with things in their own way. Everybody's different. My family are all different. None of us are the same. We all deal with different things in different ways. I think it's about knowing yourself, what pushes your buttons, and figuring out how to work with yourself.

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.

It's really something for people who are approaching 30 to take a look at what that means to them. I think turning 30 is a chance to re-identify with yourself.

No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am a different kind of person.

Most of us, whether we like it or not, we grow up and start having a different view of what we've done and who we are and where we're going.

I have lived life enough to know that I define myself.

When you start to find balance, then you start to ask more important questions, like, 'Who am I really?' That's when you start seeing that every single person around you is a human being just doing the best that they can.

I think everyone has experienced the realization about their parents in some way. I most certainly have. That doesn't mean you don't love your parents or mean you aren't going to be loyal to them. But, you are both human beings who have different opinions.

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself. and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that ... you really must make the self. It is absolutely useless to look for it, you won't find it, but it's possible in some sense to make it. I don't mean in the sense of making a mask, a Yeatsian mask. But you finally begin in some sense to make and choose the self you want.

When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what's in their hearts. This can save you from becoming an adult too early, save your life from becoming only theirs lived over again--which is a loss. But to shield yourself--as I didn't do--seems to be an even greater error, since what's lost is the truth of your parents' life and what you should think about it, and beyond that, how you should estimate the world you are about to live in.

We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.