Story Musgrave Quotes

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

And freedom comes with grace, kindness, understanding, and love. Don't take anything personal, folks. Whatever is said about you or rumored or you heard something - you haven't done anything wrong and it's not your fault. That is your own self-invisible anchor that will stop your boat of life from going forward.

If you get mad about how your voice sounds when it comes out of your own mouth, it's not really my fault. Go ahead and be yourself.

It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the Olympics] - no dizziness.

I hate to try to be that person in my own skin, in my own way, in my own head, not through exercises or anything else, just by, I guess, belief, concentration.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

I have no issues with my identity.

I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don't want to be blocked by things that get inside of you and kill you.

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

The more forcibly I'm made aware of the fact that I'll never be the kind of storyteller I most admire, the less I'll be troubled by that. I'll probably just become more myself.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.

We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I've fully embraced who I am. I stopped fighting with people and just come to realize, 'This is me. This is all of me.'