Sarah Dessen Quotes

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.

You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be!

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

Stop trying to figure out what is 'best' for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start going with what feels like Who You Are.

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

There can be only one purpose for relationships-and for all of life: to be and to decide Who You Really Are.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your true authentic self is at the core of that as you're playing all these different roles, and man, that self-awareness starts to come into effect. And you start to see who you really are.

I've realized that Evanescence is who I am.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

The Lord knows who we really are, what we really think, what we really do, and who we really are becoming.

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

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

I'm not what I make.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.

Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.

The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It's the part of you that already cares, that is already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle.

Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.