Free to Be Me Quotes

“In order to have a life worth living, you need to be you. Not the parental- or friend- or boy-dictated version. Not the Internet-updated version. But the true version. You are you. You actually can’t be anyone else. God made you you on purpose. You are the only one alive who ever was or ever will be you. “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” said the brilliant Dr. Seuss.1 You is not only who you get to be; it’s who you are supposed to be. Problems come when we would rather be someone else. Anyone else. Sometimes others don’t like us. Sometimes we don’t like ourselves. We know where we are struggling or failing or hurting or simply wanting out. We know we are not all that we are meant to be. So here’s the good news. You are meant to be you, but you are meant to become a better you. You are meant to change and grow in the ways you long to. That is, in fact, why you long to. The very fact that we long for the change we do is a sign that we are meant to have it. Our very dissatisfaction with our weaknesses and struggles points to the reality that continuing to live in them is not our destiny.”
― Stasi Eldredge, Free to Be Me: Becoming the Young Woman God Created You to Be

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Stasi Eldredge, Free to Be Me: Becoming the Young Woman God Created You to Be

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson”
― Stasi Eldredge, Free to Be Me: Becoming the Young Woman God Created You to Be

“You are you. Unique. Marvelous. Beautiful. Quirky. And imperfect.”
― Stasi Eldredge, Free to Be Me: Becoming the Young Woman God Created You to Be

“Currently, the physical standards of beauty held up in the media as the goal are actually out of reach for 98 percent of the population. 'This is what is beautiful,' we are told. 'Look like this! Try to be this! You will never be able to, but please keep trying because we are making a lot of money out of your continued failed attempts.”
― Stasi Eldredge, Free to Be Me: Becoming the Young Woman God Created You to Be

“Remember, misogyny is hatred. Whether we are aware of it or not, when we hate other girls, we are hating ourselves, cooperating with the Enemy, and perpetuating grave damage. To hate, Jesus said, is to murder.”
― Stasi Eldredge, Free to Be Me: Becoming the Young Woman God Created You to Be

“God isn’t waiting for me to get my act together in order to become worthy of his affection. I have only and ever been lovely to God, and so have you.”
― Stasi Eldredge, Free to Be Me: Becoming the Young Woman God Created You to Be

“No one gets a pain-free life. I know some girls’ lives look pretty perfect from a distance, but only from a distance. You get close and you learn the truth. A life without suffering is a fantasy life, and you don’t live in a fantasy.”
― Stasi Eldredge, Free to Be Me: Becoming the Young Woman God Created You to Be

“There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” said the brilliant Dr. Seuss.1”
― Stasi Eldredge, Free to Be Me: Becoming the Young Woman God Created You to Be

“Today will shape your tomorrow. Tomorrow you will remember yesterday.”
― Stasi Eldredge, Free to Be Me: Becoming the Young Woman God Created You to Be