Laini Taylor Quotes

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!

I think, for me, it has been important to remain 'Petra from Fulnek.'

You know, I am who I am.

You're always just going to be who you are.

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.

If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?

I cannot be other than what I am, and I am the choices of all my days.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

I've learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people's expectations than with your own sense of self and self-confidence.

The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.

Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.