Simone Weil Quotes

For so long, I've been a little misunderstood as a person. You know, I do have this strut about me. I don't know if it's the Jersey girl in me. I like to think of myself as an egg, you know? Hard on the outside but soft on the inside.

I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.

I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

When I dance, I go to a different side of who I am. I feel like I can solve a problem without knowing I'm solving one.

Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.

I've never really been afraid of how people were going to define me, as long as I didn't write some cheaper song because people like that I'm depressed.

Don't hold back from being an 'empath.' Don't be afraid of shedding your tears. Feel it. Feel the full extent of everything. It gives us strength.

For the last 14 years or so, I've been a fighter for so long I kind of forgot what it's like to not have this as my biggest form of expression of who I am.

To really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing. Just being an actress in Hollywood is very vulnerable. To let all these other people decide whether you're really of value or not, you have to really be strong to know that, of course, they have a right to their opinion, but their opinion doesn't matter as far as yourself.

Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.

This possibility to change reality, which exists in everyone, represents the real freedom of every human individual. He has an enormous possibility to change his world view.

If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way- especially shame, fear and vulnerability

It seems as though I've always been,somebody outside looking in,well, here I am for all of them to bleed,but they can't take my heart from me,and they can't bring me to my knees,they'll never know the real me.

The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.

I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.

I am the me I choose to be.

I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart -I am listening and I am listening because what I'm playing isn't something I'm thinking about, it's something I'm feeling all over.

Every time I break out of what is expected of me and do what feels right, I feel stronger.

cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.

I've always been something these labels can't buy, especially if they tryna take a piece of my soul.

I rock because sometimes I'm scared and that's alright. I rock because I'm not afraid to cry. I rock because I'm loved and I'm able to love. I rock...I rock.

Why be influenced by a person when you already are one?

If you can tell the world who you are and what you believe without breaking stride or hesitating, you are happy with yourself.