Quotes About Self-discovery

I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this age; I'm going to have a kid at this age' - and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don't want my life to be based on that.

If women feel they are able to go from partner to partner without feeling emotionally invested and ultimately hurt, they should go for it.

People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.

Everyone's got something that they've held onto from their childhood or from a past relationship, someone who's told you what you are, and it's leaving all that behind and living a happy life and realizing that a lot of that is inside you - really uncovering that. The story - those themes - are heavy themes that everyone can connect to.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

I think as far as themes, 'Hedwig' is about what music meant to you as a kid and how rock n' roll can save you; that is definitely part of it.

With 'The Chi,' it's me observing my own city and also pulling some things from themes I've dealt with in my life.

It's always relevant - moving forward into the future and finding out who you are. I think those themes never get stale.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Anytime you share life stories with other people, you know, you are acknowledging their humanity and kind of accessing some things about yourself, and other people start to expect things about themselves. It's kind of like a fellowship.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

For lack of a better word, acting is therapeutic. You really are breaking down barriers, exorcising demons and finding more out about yourself.

I think acting is therapeutic for me.

To me to singing is like a freedom. It's a very therapeutic thing. It's incredible. I can just lose myself. It's sort of like meditation.

All things to do with drag are inherently therapeutic because the realization of your own insanity is the beginning of sanity.

Acting is therapeutic.

Acting is always therapeutic.

Writing is very liberating and therapeutic.

Without meaning to sound crass, I've never had any psychological... help. It's because I feel my work is so revealing about who I am and what I am trying to understand about myself. It's a therapeutic process.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

Acting, for me, was therapeutic. It was a way of expressing yourself.

It's obviously an incredible feeling to come from where I started to where I am right now. Having this show has been a very enlightening and therapeutic process. It allows me to watch what I went through in the third person.

I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.