Sara Rue Quotes

Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher I am become, staying in this benighted place). From the moment we are conceived it is the pattern in our blood and our bones are printed through with it like sticks of seaside rock. Nora, on the other hand, says that she’s surprised anyone knows who they are, considering that every cell and molecule in our bodies has been replaced many times over since we were born.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

I know myself, I'm learning myself. I'm growing, I'm maturing.

I enjoy exploring and finding myself.

It's crazy what can happen in a decade and how much you can grow as a person and as a woman and truly find your voice.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

Even when I'm older, I might be in a different head space, but I want to be able to go back to 'True 2 Myself' and remember this season. It's really for me.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.