Gloria Steinem Quotes

For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

I cannot be anyone else but Memphis. I tried that, and I was not happy with myself.

Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.

I can build a happy life only on the foundation of my own nature.

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

I want to be myself. That's when you feel the most comfortable, that's when you have the most success, and that's when you're the most happy.

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Be yourself, you’ll be a lot happier.

Follow Your Bliss. Not someone else’s idea of your bliss. Not what you think should be your bliss. Not what you think would impress the crowd or appease the family. Your BLISS. What truly gets you giddy.

I had been living the life that society tends to dictate for women of a certain age. You marry the person who asks you, even though he may or may not be the best one for you. Around the time that I got divorced, I had an epiphany that there is no blue ribbon or gold medal for living someone else's life, for fulfilling someone else's dreams. It's doesn't make you happy. You just end up with a life that's not yours.

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

You have to be true, you have to be honest.. Don't do anything, just figure out what it is that is true to you, what makes you happiest to do and be out there. And if it doesn't work, then you just have to call it a day and go find something else. But don't make it up. Don't go out there and pretend to be something you aren't.

Success is about making your life a special version of unique that fits who you are - not what other people want you to be.

Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself

I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody.

Following your bliss is not self-indulgent, but vital; your whole physical system knows that this is the way to be alive in this world and the way to give to the world the very best that you have to offer. There IS a track just waiting for each of us and once on it, doors will open that were not open before and would not open for anyone else.

This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else's.

The key then is to find your own mountain, otherwise you will be competing with people who are not even in your event, and running up against the 'shoulds' and 'oughts' of that world, and the inevitable frustration and depression and feelings of failure. A person can be complete or incomplete, but one thing is sure, he cannot be someone else.

You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do.

The most important thing is to be happy and true to yourself. I don't want to look back at this in 30 years from now and say, 'I did it all to make them happy and I didn't enjoy.'

I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'