Selena Gomez Quotes

I feel complete when I look at my phone and see thousands of likes and comments.

I don't live my life seeking validation from people on social media.

Awards are great, but they're not who you are, and pop culture isn't who you are.

Be sure you separate 'who you are' from 'what you have' and 'what you do'.

For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That's what I've tried to go out and do.

And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive you, I think that's a slippery slope.

I want an identity outside of my work.

I express myself through clothes, but clothes don't define me.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

I don't think a name defines the core of who you are.

My whole life is not defined by what Hollywood does.

Tennis is great, but it doesn't necessarily define me.

I just constantly tell myself that I should be the only one to define my worth and what I'm capable of and how I perceive myself. And that I should never source that worth from other people, especially strangers on social media. They don't know who I am, the length of my journey, who I am as a person.

Are we all unhappy with our true selves, and likes and follows are what give us value?

Social media should be a true sense of who you are.

You choose who you want to be.

This is not me, WWE doesn't define who Ashley is.

I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.

I feel like my story just proves how important not only social media is, but how important it is to be your authentic self. Because when you're really truly your authentic self, the right people will find you. And when they find you, it will be for exactly who you are.

Every woman in this world is allowed to define themselves how they want.

Neither of us are workaholics. I think the key thing is to accept that if you only exist through what you do, then you become what you do, and this is very wrong.

What I do and who I am are two different things. And they always will be.

You are not the car you drive.

Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.