Anne Lamott Quotes

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

It's better to become who God created you to be than to try to promote yourself to become something you're not.

A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story.

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

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

Learn what you are and be such.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.

The only journey is the one within.

Be that self which one truly is.

As I grow older, I feel like my authentic self has been able to shine through more and more, and people can see that.

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.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that ... you really must make the self. It is absolutely useless to look for it, you won't find it, but it's possible in some sense to make it. I don't mean in the sense of making a mask, a Yeatsian mask. But you finally begin in some sense to make and choose the self you want.

Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree." (Ellen Hopkins)

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

Life is about becoming more of who you really are.

I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.