Quotes About Self-discovery

I was working, somehow, to free her from myself, when it appeared that what she needed was to take some of me along with her!

The parts of life that are suffocating', Angeliki said, 'are so often the parts that are the projection of our parents' own desires

I remember, when my own children were born feeling a great awareness of this new, foreign aspect of myself that was in me and yet did not seem to be of me. It was as though I had suddenly acquired the ability to speak Russian: I didn't know where my knowledge of it had come from.

I saw, in other words, that I was alone, and saw the gift and the burden of that state, which had never truly been revealed to me before.

Wintry Peacock". It is an autobiographical

She wondered whether the books she loved consoled her precisely because they were the manifestations of her own isolation.

You could spend your whole life', she said, 'trying to trace events back to your own mistakes.

But what other people thought was no longer of any help to me. Those thoughts only existed within certain structures, and I had definitively left those structures.

The woman without a background has a thin time, at any age,

She still held sorrows, but she was not made of them. Her life was not a tragedy. It was a history, and it was hers.

I made a vow that I wouldn't be tempted by what could happen to me if I went to Europe. I thought, 'You could be absorbed in it - it's so seductive, you might lose your own search for identity.' Then, when I did finally go to Europe, I was able to resist it because I had established my own identity.

Acting is therapeutic. I say I'm not shy, but... Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you've got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged.

Distilled down, it is pretty simple, the only way to overcome shyness is to allow yourself to be vulnerable and nothing made me as vulnerable as unconditional love.

Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is, I was ready to be completely vulnerable and honest with myself and unapologetic when it comes to how I express myself in my medium. But I wasn't as secure in doing that when it came to just being myself.

But through therapy I'm realising I'm allowed to be vulnerable. And I'm allowed to feel shy. And I'm allowed to feel private.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very hard for people like that - people like me - to open up. But playing it safe means you stop being open to learning. I always try to find the challenges.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.

It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.

It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.

I feel that telling my secrets makes me less vulnerable. What would make me vulnerable are the secrets I keep.

I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.