Quotes About Self-discovery

I was examining my thoughts. I saw they had other forms. I was measuring my emotions. I found their close borders. I was testing my bodily movements. I determined their simple significance. I was losing my benevolence. I have no more concentration. Those who guess will guess. I have nothing left to guess.

Until you make the unconscious conscious," Carl Jung said, "it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

I woke up on May 15 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

One day you'll hear that song you both liked on the radio and it won't make you cry. You'll wake up one morning and they won't be the first thing you think about, or the last thing you think about when you're falling asleep at night. Their face won't be the one you see any more when you close your eyes, or in a crowd when you're walking down a street. And when something makes you laugh, or cry, they won't be the person you want to share it with.

I've learned if there's one gift you can give yourself in life, it's the freedom and courage to say "I don't know". Because I'll let you into a secret – you don't have to know. You don't have to know how you feel, or what you want, or if you're happy or if you're sad.

But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is this minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.

Conformity is a mask behind which students can hide their identity or the fact that they haven't yet figured out their identity.

The art of living in today's world requires us to reach inside ourselves and search for the answers.

To thine own self be true. SHAKESPEARE

To progress again, man must remake himself. And he cannot remake himself withoutsuffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor. In order to uncover his true visage,he must shatter his own substance with heavy blows of his hammer.

Am I Aboriginal, or how much of an Aboriginal am I?

Me salí de mi carne, gocé el goce más alto: oponer una frase de basalto al genio oscuro que nos desintegra.

There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!'

I haven't really found the right person. That sounds like an older person thing to say, but I'm too busy and - not in a bad way - don't want to waste my time.

I want to be able to still surprise myself, even shock myself, whether it be sexual content, whether it be about the theological content, whatever. I want to be able to knock myself sideways. Otherwise, what a waste of a life that would be.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.

Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I've wasted trying to find the right man.

When I went to college, I met a new group of friends and looked back on my high-school experience and realized how much time I had wasted on trying to make myself something I wasn't.

I really wasted a lot of time in my 20s.

I feel like at the end of your days, the last thing that's going to happen is that you're going to watch the movie of your life. It's very important to make sure that you love your movie and that you want to watch your movie, so I try to always make sure that I'm doing something fun and interesting.

I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an idea of what acting is by anyone else. I want to take my own education.

Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.