Dominic Cooper Quotes

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

I find that I'm not as worried anymore about what other people think. That's a comfortable place to be. And I'm starting to let go of the feeling that I need to push myself to do things I don't want to do - an impulse that has always been linked to the feeling that I'm not enough.

I was new, and it was like that movie "Mean Girls". This clique would tease me and make up rumors about me being gay. I don't even know why they did it. I came home crying one day and told my mom I couldn't be around them anymore. So we decided I would be homeschooled. I think it's important to check in with yourself and make sure you are being exactly who you want to be. When I am true to who I am, I'm a better girfriend. I'm just more happy being me.

There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

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

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.

You have to be satiated with just being authentically yourself at the end of the day.

At the end of the day, when all the fighting stops and when everybody stops shouting your name, you've still got to be yourself and I feel I am.

Especially as an artist, the creative freedom we have makes us who we are. We're human beings-we're gonna mess up sometimes. I definitely feel like people should continue being who they are. As long as you're staying true to who you are, that's super important.

My music just stands for being true to who you are.

I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was my actual personality. I was still working out what kind of person I was.

Stop trying to define who you are and just be.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.

The only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.

I am the excuse to explore your identity. To be exactly who you are and to feel unafraid. To not judge yourself, to not hate yourself.

It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the version of yourself that you're supposed to be - like in God's eyes. It doesn't matter if you're half crazy, or eccentric, or whatever it is - that you have to be true to who you were born to be.

I like people who, you know, as you go along in life, you know, a thing happens, and people become a seeker. They look for something to give them the path to their full potential. I like them to know about transcendental mediation, but they've got to make up their own mind to take it and use it.

Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

I don't have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am.

The greatest value comes from loving yourself for who you are. I've been teaching myself this for years, so I hope that by showing what I've learned, others can find the same freedom and joy I have.