Quotes About Self-discovery

I wasn't a masculine kid; I was pretty effeminate.

Hargrave made me mature. It made me grow up, and I needed that.

Sometimes early in my career I thought what I did was who I was. As you mature, I've learned that is not the case. This is what I do, this is not who I am.

I've matured - just growing up and learning more about my sport and more about myself.

I'll always be an Essex girl at heart but I've matured and I've evolved and with my work I'm in the West End all the time.

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.

I think that my whole journey had been getting to the place where I can accept myself for who I am, to be the woman that I'm meant to be, but you have to get there first.

It's certain I never was meant to be an actor.

I don't think I would have made for a good doctor. It was not meant to be, and it took me a long time to realize that.

I was always meant to be Khali.

I think we are all individuals at the end of the day. There's nothing about culture that can prescribe who you're meant to be.

I actually used to say it to my mother and my sister all the time. I used to say, 'I just know I am not doing what I am meant to be doing. I know there is something more.'

I like to read a lot, man. I read a lot and meditate and just go to that place. I'm not really an outdoorsman. I don't watch TV.

My life coach is very spiritual, and I do a lot of meditation and mantras.

I would hate to meet myself at 15.

In my life, being true to myself certainly hasn't made things easier. You could never accuse me of taking the path of least resistance.

I resolved to start journaling every day, and so far I've been journaling every day, and it's been great.

I think a lot of what I've done is about people feeling as if they are part of the world but also not part of it at the same time. I don't know whether that's from being a gay kid, but I definitely think that resonates with me.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

I decided to practice alone because it was a challenge for me to see how much I love tennis. And making sure I was not trying just to respond to other people's expectations and that I really wanted it myself. I realized that I just loved tennis, that it was something extraordinary, that I would really want to do that.

I guess I'm afraid to retire because I don't know what I would do. I don't know what my talent is. So I don't know. So maybe I'm afraid to stop, but I've got to stop.

When my family urged me to retire, it made me re-evaluate everything for the first time.

I went from following people to being on my own. Once I was on my own, I watched people start liking me, and I watched people stop liking me. Everything was supposed happen. It was all supposed to reveal itself.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.