Sylvia Ashton-Warner Quotes

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

If you don't feel fabulous, you have deviated from the path of who-you-really-are.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

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

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.

With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.

When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

I reveal all of myself. I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self.

I have to be true to myself, and that's what I know for sure. I can't try to be anybody else.

To transcend and be yourself... I have no reason to tell you, and others, something that is not of interest to you.

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.