Alessia Cara Quotes

I think people who meet me just pretty much get what I am about.

You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.

The beauty of knowing yourself is nobody else has to.

People worry about their looks going, but go deeper, and you realise you know yourself more and you're more comfortable in your own skin and more settled within yourself, and that's a really great basis on which to live your life.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

What I've realized, and had to become comfortable with, is that I'm just, I don't think, a star. I'm an actor.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

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.

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I can look back at things I've done and said and worn and be completely humiliated by them, but I can never say it wasn't me. I feel really honored to say that.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

I know who I am.

There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

Know thyself.

I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?

When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.

It's common for people to start questioning themselves. As a female, I'm going to offer the advice I gave myself: You look at your strengths, you look at your goals, and accept that you are who you are. Be true to that.

A really big thing I've learned - and I think it's so liberating - is when you realize no one knows what they're doing.