Idina Menzel Quotes

I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

When you know you're vulnerable, and you know... your strength and your weakness, you can see life with better perspective.

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

I'm getting stronger as a person, but sometimes I just need to get over myself!

One thing I learned about that I always knew about myself - that I always been afraid of myself.

Sometimes, my weakness is where the strength really is, and it leads me to depend in the areas where I really should.

I used to consider myself weak.

I'm still conscious of whether people really accept me, but that insecurity makes me stronger.

'Correct' is a song and an exercise for me where I've been able to reclaim who I am and the good that I've done when in real life sometimes I struggle with that.

I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.

Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.

I am my own heaven and hell!

Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.

I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

Before I finished another level of Scientology auditing, I had a very hard time with being wrong and I always had to have my own way - and not in a good sense. After auditing, I was able to have my thoughts, communicate them and not have to be right all the time.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.