Rosario Dawson Quotes

this is what i never allowed myself to need. and of course what i've been needing all along.

I was living a life of a lie. And I was doing a lot of things, that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly.

Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.

We live in a society running from pain through alcohol, through too much exercise, through sugar, through drugs - as opposed to realizing that these things come up because they are lessons. It's a way to wake you up.

I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain.

People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.

The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in terms of the acceptance of responsibility. And the awareness of responsibility inevitably leads either to despair or to confession and grace.

You can recover the truth of what you really are. When you finally see yourself as you are, when you finally take responsibility for your creation, you will cleanse the lies from your own creation.

One can run away from anything but oneself.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become?

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Any young man coming of age has a lot to go through. Peter Parker certainly has a lot of responsibility, and without doubt, so does Pippin - his role, his life, and how he is going to perform it. It's all about choices and how we make them.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.

In every person, you have a world of personalities and souls, a world of perspectives that you can share. You can get into anyone's shoes. You've got to be willing to stare at the ugliest part of yourself and deal with it.

In life, there's a ladder sometimes, and maybe at the top, there's a mirror. You take a step up, then maybe three steps down... just because you don't want to face the decloaking in the mirror.