Quotes About Self-discovery

Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.

It was really an exciting time trying to find my way from being a boy to becoming a man—being toe to toe and eye to eye with grown men, even though I was only 11 or 12.

I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.

I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.

For the first time I feel really free.

Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I'm alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.

This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.

But time has a way of stealthily deciding a person's mind without her conscious knowledge, and as she studied and procrastinated, Poison found one day that she had come to know her choice.

It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.

At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.

During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40.

I think it just takes time in order to come to a place where your comfortable being who God made you to be.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

I knew that when it came time for me to finally make my own album, it wasnt going to be about being a jock. It had to be more personal and intimate.

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.

One of the most courageous things we do is change. If everyone says you're wonderful every time you wear a red dress, and you change to yellow, that takes courage.

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and having adventures and seeing the world.

I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.

It [the film industry] is not a glamorous industry. It's really, really hard, and you get told all the time, "You're not this, you're not that," and so you have to find a center.