Vaani Kapoor Quotes

I feel like we're so limited by the context at which we look at life. The way we look at who we're supposed to be and how we're supposed to love... everything. I feel like that, in and of itself, is a project of a lifetime: the problem of how to break out of the limiting context that is imposed upon us by the educational system, by the church, by our parents... As a kid I rejected it without even thinking about it. Now that I'm a little older, I see how deeply destructive it really is.

The society wants you to have beautiful personalities; the society wants you to have personalities which are comfortable for the society, convenient for the society. But the person is not the real thing, the individual is the real thing. The individual is not necessarily always comfortable to the society - in fact he is very inconvenient.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

I've learned a lot about how people have to fight through their whole lives just to be themselves.

In life, we are told to do or be so many different things and expected to fit so many different expectations; I think that's something I always had a hard time with.

Too often athletes think there's these norms that I have to fit into and there are people that I have to please.

I felt free once I realized I was never going to fit the narrow mold society wanted me to fit in.

People sometimes are afraid to be who they are because of other people's ideals.

I feel like, when people realize that they are the only person they need to impress, everybody's life will be a lot smoother.

Be Sure you Are Stepping to the Music you Hear - No Matter what Other People Think.

There's nothing wrong with being single and not getting married and being, you know, just an old single lady. Who cares?

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

I never say never about a lot of things. Whatever you want, then more power to you. If someone feels they have to live up to a certain image, then I can kind of understand that pressure because I'm considered to be one of those images, and I know how unreal they are.

I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.

Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

I keep saying, 'Don't change. Be who you are,' but society is really strong in their opinions.

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.

I think you're always policing yourself by trying to do what you think would be "cool" and accepted by other people, until you start to figure out who you really want to be. Growing up is an ongoing push-and-pull of you being yourself and you performing to what society expects you to be.

Our goal as women should be to discover who we are and not who we think we should be or who the world wants us to be. It's not our responsibility to be arm candy!

You have ideas planted in your head, thoughts you never had before, that tell you how you have to act, how you have to dress and who you have to be. I have been trying to push back, to be authentic, to follow my heart, but it can be hard.

If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.

It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.