David Whyte Quotes

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

I started coming into my own at 30, discovering what's important to me, not caring what other people think.

You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity can hold you back.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

I stopped feeling like I didn't belong anywhere, and realized that I actually belonged anywhere I wanted to be.

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home with oneself. This means basically learning who one is, and learning what one has to offer to the contemporary world, and then learning how to make that offering valid.

To anyone out there especially young people feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please know this, great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself.

The point of life that I'm currently at is a 'me right now' type of attitude. I am 37 years-old, my son is in college and my daughter is in high school. I'm becoming okay with me. I can't live life as an artist or person being someone that someone else has tried to mold me into. I'm not going to put on a dress that's two sizes too small. I'm custom making my own clothes so that they'll never fit anyone else if you know what I mean.

I've been able to define who I am and my brother is able to do his thing.

The time I felt most beautiful was probably when I was in college, and I was starting to accept who I was as a person. I wasn't hiding who I was anymore, and I was like, 'You know what? I'm growing up; I don't have to follow the rules anymore.'

I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

I am who I am. I'm unique. I'm my own self.

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

For a long time, I consciously tried to be a good person for others. Not anymore. Caring about other people keeps me in line, but I've decided to just be myself.

All I know is myself and I don't plan on changing that.

Don't try to be me. No one but me can be me. But you can be you. Look inside yourself and get to know who the real you is. And then be that person. The best version of you.

Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself.

I ran out of any type of persona. I just had to be me.

You have to be yourself.