Elliot Knight Quotes

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.

Living authentically isn't an act of courage as much as an act of survival.

Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?

Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

Be who you are. Otherwise, you end up committing suicide. You end up marrying people when you shouldn't be marrying them and having terrible, secret lives.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

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

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'