Quotes About Self-discovery

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back

Opening to the sacred, we transform our vision of ourselves.

Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

Well, the first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you've been smoking weed for as long as I have and then you stop. Emotionally, it was like I didn't know myself.

Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.

We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.

It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

Each person has his special moment of life when he unfolded himself to the fullest, felt to the deepest, and expressed himself to the utmost, to himself and to others.

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.

And if there's anything I do it's change and grow. I'm just a living being. Every year of my life I seem to learn that everything I know is wrong.

If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to.

I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

Childhood decisions do not have to define you.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our own life.

When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.

Don't mind what people say to you, find out what you have in yourself and do your best, that is the only hope in life