Quotes About Self-discovery

I built a lot of stuff as a kid. But I was not interested in tech, I thought it wasn't really for me.

When I feel something, I write it down so I guess technically it's a personal catharsis, but I would really like to help people as I figure myself out.

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

I invented Christine as a survival technique. I was inspired by the idea that everyone could have a Christine inside to wake.

I invented 'Christine' as a survival technique to deal with many things. I felt it would save me.

We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.

I became a master of disguise and could play the straight man down to a tee, sometimes over-compensating by getting into fights or being overly aggressive because I didn't want the real me to be found out. So I created this alter ego, knowing full well that I was living in my little fantasy bubble, my shell.

I feel really honored to be part of The #seetherealme campaign. It's really amazing, as it helps many teen girls who are struggling. It helps them to find themselves and be true to who they are.

I'm, like, forever a teenage girl in a way. No matter how hard I try not to be, that's just what I am. All I care about is boys and shopping.

A lot of my music is about self-discovery because I focus on my teenage years.

I spent a lot of my teenage years experimenting with who I was as a person and not really getting it right. And then, I think, I realized that I just had to chill out in life.

Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.

I spent my teenage years and early 20s being manipulated - well, not manipulated, but I was told what to do and what to say by agents and managers, and when I was around 23 I thought 'I am sick of pretending to be someone and saying all these things that don't really resonate with me.'

It's one thing to be able to sing well, but another to be an artist and find your own voice within music. And that's what the goal was for me in my teenage years. I had to find myself.

As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

Being a teenager is complicated.

Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.

I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.

I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.

I didn't feel so great when I was a teenager, but who does?

Being a teenager is hard.

The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.