Susan L. Taylor Quotes

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.

I rejected the word humorist for a long time because I thought that it meant you had, like, a cardigan sweater with patches on the elbows, but now I'm old and I do. I grew into that word. I think at heart, all this time, I've been a diarist. I'm not ashamed of it.

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.

My personality doesn't interest me.

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

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

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

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

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

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

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm told that I'm supposed to feel.

One of my problems is to find the self.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.