Wayne Dyer Quotes

I couldn't care what people are saying or not saying because I have my own life. I know who I am, I know who is Joanna Jedrzecjzyk. And I know who I want to be.

You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

I am that which I am, and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are.

The important thing is not to be defined by what others think of you.

The more confident one becomes, the less one needs all people to be the same.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

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'm just going to do what I do and be who I am.

As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently.

I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply dependent on others dancing with me and that I still have a sense of self when no one wants to dance.

Be who you are. If you spend all of your time worrying about how people view you, you will not be either faithful to yourself or effective in what you're trying to do.

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

I don't really read that much stuff about myself anyways, because I feel as though you then develop this mind-set of just making sure other people would approve of your decisions.

...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.

Accept your own and be yourself!

The hand you hold the longest is your own.

It's not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It's particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

I am not who I sleep with. I am not my weight. I am not my mother. I am myself. And I am all of you, and I thank you.

I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out your own. You've got to block them out and find that place deep inside you, shaken but still intact, and hold on to it.

Don't let other people decide who you are.

Release yourself from the power you've invested in your mirror and those around you - take control of who you are and how you feel!

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

When you live life with him or without him, that is when he will accept and value you for who you are.