As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, "This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever. "
True friends define each other.
For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren't right for ourselves.
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.
Countless people have attempted to define the absolute power of the world of nature. Some praise it as god, some call it the Buddha, others call it truth. Still others convert nature into a philosophy by which they attempt to sound its deepest truth. Such attempts to define the power of nature are no more than striving to escape its effects.
If you accuse me of being on drugs because I'm very focused on what I do, because I'm very serious, because I'm very hungry, because I can squat 800 lbs, because I can bench 500 lbs, because I can press 315 behind my neck, and if these things don't fit under what you consider to be natural, then I don't want to be a natural. I don't want to be what you depict as a natural. I want to define myself for me.
It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.
Don't let your failures define you.
Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me. That's what I do and it's what I love, but I think by having other things I'm passionate about and interested in, it helped me to come back. It helped me to have renewed love for the sport by being able to step away and then come back.
You don't have to fear this amorphous thing called grief or loss or anger or jealousy. You define it for yourself in the intimacy of your own experience for exactly what it is, and then it comes. In other words, by experiencing your emotions somatically, there is no boogie man to scare you.
A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.
The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential
If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.
I don't define myself as an actor at all. Nor is that my greatest passion in life by any stretch of the imagination.
Political pornography is not unlike the sexual kind: difficult to define, but you know it when you see it
Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.
I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.
I want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power of wealth, and the privilege from care. Any definition of success should be personal because it's so transitory. It's about shaping my own destiny.