Authenticity and knowing who you are is fundamental to being an effective and long-standing leader.
God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.
You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
I must forgive without noise or fuss.
You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self – when I wasn’t so manic and desperate.
When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure. The nerves are steady, the chemical system has an equilibrium, and there is relaxation, equipoise. You live in the clarity of knowing who you are.
Independnce comes from you knowing who you are and you being happy with yourself.
There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.
I could point out that it isn’t always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.
The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.
Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone’s throat.
I don’t know who I am but you know, life is for learning.
I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.
The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.
In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are.
