Olivia Thirlby Quotes

If there's a theme to where I'm at in my life, it's that 'warts and all' is actually my superpower. Just like you, I'm messed up and I'm capable. I'm this and that.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

It's common for people to start questioning themselves. As a female, I'm going to offer the advice I gave myself: You look at your strengths, you look at your goals, and accept that you are who you are. Be true to that.

It took time for me to step away and become an independent thinker so that wherever I am in the world, I understand who I am and that nothing's impossible.

I've got my bag of goodies; I've got flaws coming out of every pore, but that's part of who I am. A bit of the process of life is learning to live with those things and accept yourself regardless. Maybe try to become a better person, either because of - or in spite of - those things.

I'm learning how strong I am, how resilient I am. I'm learning my weaknesses.

Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was

We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.

A 'weakness,' I now realize, is nothing but a strength not properly developed.

Everybody has a lot of darkness in them because without that you're not a whole person.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

I may not be perfect, but I'm trying.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone.