Lauren Myracle Quotes

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

People get all caught up thinking they have to train a certain way or take a certain approach to things, but there's so much more to this than fitting into what other people think you are supposed to do. You have to have fun and enjoy what you are doing; otherwise, what is it all worth?

You must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up.

I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' " 'The way I want it?' " 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?' " 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.' " 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.' " 'Mess it up how?' " 'Forgot it.' " 'Forgot?' " 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I'm just living my life.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy.

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

Once you get everything out of your head about what everybody else is going to think, will radio play it - and I hope they do, I really do - once you shed all of that and just be who you are, that's who I am. That's taken a lot of growing up. I've come into myself musically and as a woman, and I hope to keep growing. If you don't grow, you die.

You change the world by being yourself.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

I want to be more myself. Sometimes it takes awhile to find your voice.

There's no better time than now to be who you are.

There's no reason trying to fit in: Just be you. That was the biggest thing for me, just being me, and finding what works for me.

And I think every woman can be a diva, and every woman can be just a woman. I think life is a runway, and you can do everything you want. If you want.