Quotes About Self-discovery

Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life.

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

Happiness isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.

It's time to begin righting the story of your life.

Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.

I didn't want my music to be confused - even though I was and had a lot of questions. I wanted my music to capture a period in my life where I was sure.

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful.

When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

Life is simple. Life is not complicated. Life is only one thing: Identify yourself.

..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was

What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.

All of us, at some point in life, choose our cliché.