Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

I have no issues with my identity.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.

I am somebody who feels that we're all fabulous, every human being, and I think when we do things that aren't so fabulous, we are disconnected from who we really are.

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

Being down makes you think who you are.

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.

In real life, I feel tiny and quite embarrassed all the time. But when people come up to me in France and want to talk to Christine, it's okay. It's cool. Because they're really talking about themselves, their own Christines.

The best advice Drake's given anybody is to know yourself. It's the most important thing to live by.

I have started exploring my own life and have started valuing myself. I have started valuing my individuality.

My confidence comes from the realisation that, actually, the best you can be is you, learning to accept who I was, what I wanted, and that I was more than my body.

I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.

It's easy to forget who you are.

Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

I haven't always been the person I am today. I came into loving myself more than anything or anyone else.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

My success is not who I am.

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.