Quotes About Self-discovery

...all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.

How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the time?

How many women are ready to admit that they are capable of changing the course of their existence by simply taking time to think?

I wanna go to the clubs and actually have a good time too, but at the same time, when the party's over, I have to go back to the real world and try to figure out who I am.

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

It took a little time to get where I wanted. It took a little time to get free. It took a little time to be honest. It took a little time to be me.

I could take my time, and nobody was pressuring me to be a headliner. I could go up there, find my voice, and figure out what I wanted to do.

When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'

There are a lot of people out there who are exactly half extrovert and half introvert and they love to be extroverts as long as they have enough time to go off and figure it all out.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn't understand my body.

Inside each of us dwells a more-perfect self waiting to unfold. It cries loudly for release, yet it is sometimes ignored. To answer its call, you must take time to listen.

I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.

I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.

I spent two weeks at the Sadhguru's [Jaggi Vasudev]. It was a wonderful experience. It was very different from what I normally do - earlier I used to do Ashtanga [yoga] all the time.

At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip.

By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.

We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.

It takes time to become myself every morning.

I took some time away from the music industry. I've been doing this since I was 16 and needed some time to get to know myself as a grown-up.

So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.

Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

I chose to devote the lion's share of my time to my personal growth and to my family. I reconnected with the part of me that I had left behind.