Quotes About Self-discovery

When I made the decision to go to Europe, a lot of people questioned it. The first six months I was there even I was questioning it, but I think I learned a lot more about myself in that six months than I have my whole life.

Questions that have no right to go away are those that have to do with the person we are about to become; they are conversations that will happen with or without our conscious participation.

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

For me, I kind of just follow my passions and follow what I love to do and use my free time to kind of answer those questions and go through my bad moods and maybe a little light case of depression.

I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.

You don't learn anything from quick knockouts. I learn more about myself from hard fights.

You find your personality real quick in school.

I'm coming out of a long term marriage and I don't want to jump into anything too serious or too much, too quick.

You want to compete against the best players and that year at Atletico helped me a lot to become what I am now. It was difficult because it was the first time I was living alone but I think I adapted quickly to a new life.

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

A lot of people told me I should be quiet about being bisexual and not say anything, but for me this is a part of my identity.

I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.

I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.

I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older brothers were athletes - basketball, football - but I was kind of a momma's boy. Then one day, my brother Roger encouraged me to go to the boxing gym with him. I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural.

I think if I'd quit years ago, I'd never have known what I was capable of doing.

Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didn't read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.

In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.

Before I was cast on 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,' I had secretly quit Erika Jayne altogether.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

I was bisexual for a long time. I flitted between men and women quite a lot between the ages of 17 and 26.

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.

Quite frankly I don't know how to be happy. I have not a clue.

For quite some time, I lost my way, not only business-wise but personally.

I realized that I wanted a Rhodes Scholarship, not because I wanted to go to graduate school but because I wanted to win a famous award. Quitting forced me to realize I was on the wrong track and that I had lost touch with who I was and what I cared about.