V. S. Pritchett Quotes

Learn what you are and be such.

It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not.

Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.

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

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

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

The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don't care if I'm highbrow or not anymore.

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.

You blows who you is.

I want to be a better Chris Quinn. I don't want to be a different Chris Quinn.

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.

One of my problems is to find the self.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.