Quotes About Self-discovery

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

I'm not really into politics, but if I had my own country, I would make sure all my people were educated and figuring out what they love to do, and focusing on that.

I spent most of my adult life trying to get as far away from my folks as possible.

Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.

There's not a blueprint for me to follow.

I don't want to sound too spiritual, but when you are true to yourself and follow through with things that connect with you meaningfully, somehow things fall into place.

It's very scary to become someone new, to take that path less followed.

I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal.

When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

I think the most important thing that you can do when you're newly separated, or just out of a relationship, is put your foot back in the water. Don't be afriad. Get out there. Life is too short!

For a long time, I was just a football player, but I want people to see me for who I am.

Wrestling definitely shaped the direction of my life because, before that, I wanted to fit in so much. I wanted to be one of the cool cats. I was friends with the captain of the football team because he had all the chicks. I wanted to be that guy.

People at school used to assume I was going to be a footballer, and it wasn't until I got to 16, when I was at Southampton, that I had a doubt for the first time in my life. Southampton said I wasn't big enough, but it was just because I hadn't grown. Simple as that.

Don't follow in my footsteps; follow your heart.

I try to not to worry too much about following in other's footsteps and just create my own path.

There's kind of a gift in being gay because, if you come out, you're forced to express yourself.

You would think that growing up in a foreign country would be so easy and fitting in would be a piece of cake, and although my parents were completely liberal and allowed us the opportunity to explore this world, I always felt as though I was searching for people that were more like me.

Being a foreigner bad guy doesn't have to be my destiny, and I can be much more than that.

Well, I think the thing that was always important to us, first and foremost, was that our Loki, it's his journey that he goes on, and that's something that we definitely were looking at for a long time.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

When I became a parent I forgot about the part of myself which was very emotional, very dour a little depressed - but very good at writing emotional songs.

For the last 14 years or so, I've been a fighter for so long I kind of forgot what it's like to not have this as my biggest form of expression of who I am.

I had been the dutiful son and husband for so long, I had forgotten about living for myself.

No matter all of your credits and accomplishments - you can be forgotten in a trice. The idea that you have to go back and start again after considerable success can destroy you if you're not strong. I never lost track of who I am and what I can do, because I continually find things to do, but not everyone has that resource.