Defining Myself Quotes

• With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.

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  Britney Spears

  Hurt   Love You   Love Is  

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• I don't like defining myself. I just am.

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  Britney Spears

  Defining   Defining Myself  

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• Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in taking photographs over the past forty years has ultimately been about defining myself. It has been fundamentally a psychological and existential journey.

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  Roger Ballen

  Black And White   Past   Journey  

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• I'm in my 30's, and I'm still struggling with defining myself. I'm working every day to take control of things that are out of my control, and not letting them bring me down or frustrate me, to the point of paralysis.

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  Lauren Iungerich

  Struggle   Defining   Take Control  

  Source: collider.com

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• If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

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  Audre Lorde

  Inspiring   Being Yourself   People  

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• I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.

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  Twyla Tharp

  Dance   Dream   Becoming The Best  

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

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  Carol Moseley Braun

  Inspiring   Being Yourself   Freedom  

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• No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.

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  Haruki Murakami

  Change   Being Yourself   Thinking  

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• My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

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  Wentworth Miller

  People   Definitions   Defining  

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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