Julie Kagawa Quotes

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.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

Be okay with who you are. And that you can't choose your parents or what life you were born into, but you can choose the kind of person you want to be.

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

Figure out who you are.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

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.

You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

I want to show that we all have the right to be ourselves, and I certainly don't want to freeze time.

I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

Many of us don’t realize that we have a choice about which aspect of ourselves we will use as the foundation upon which we build our lives.

I'm happy about who and what I am - and I can't wait to find out who I'll be tomorrow.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.