Quotes About Self-discovery

You can waste your whole life trying to be everything to everybody. Pick your passion. And let them pick theirs.

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

The only way out is in.

I have seen life's purpose, and now it is my own.

If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.

[The main character] is in a forever-growing process. I feel the movie [everybody Loves Somebody] did that very well and not finishing off as "a woman's life ends when she finds the right guy".

I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.

Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice.

I'd like to get something small and self-generated in before Black Rock has whatever life that it has.

She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.

I didn't have a calling to be a therapist. I really went to Pacifica for a very specific kind of life experience, to really kind of find my path in a deeper way.

Really, it [the Waitress] was a story about believing in yourself ultimately, and caring enough about yourself to change your life.

I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.

The reflective person opens up her inner world and embarks on the greatest adventure that life has to offer – getting to know and understand oneself.

I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.

The hero, in living her own life, in being true to herself; radiates a light by which others may see their own way.

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is.

I was a weird tomboy most of my life. I didn't see the power in my own female form for quite a long time. Maybe that's a good thing.

It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.

The more we listen to ourselves and make positive changes based on what we discover, the more interesting life becomes.

I didn't go to America to be a star, but to try to reclaim my life.