Quotes About Self-discovery

A lot of people have wondered what Ive been up to. I retired from my career after 24 years. My feeling was that it was time to play my biggest part - Myself!

We only get to be one person; we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.

In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.

I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.

Every day is just a time to learn about yourself and learn about the world and that's how I feel all the time.

I wouldn't change being married. It was good for me, and I was happy for a period of time, and I learned a lot about myself.

My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.

Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It takes a lifetime. Enjoy it!

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

I don't feel rushed to figure myself out. I have all the time in the world to do that.

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture any more.

Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.

Being vulnerable has always been my way of dealing with my grief, from the beginning. Even before I knew I was that way, I cried it out all the time. I expressed my feelings.

People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.

Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about what I was before the song was written.

But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and then they would be honest so much earlier.