Quotes About Self-discovery

If we look outside ourselves to find love and peace we will ultimately fail. It has to come from within.

For a thinking person, the most serious mental illness is not being sure of who you are.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

I can understand why it takes some people a long time to really be a singer. You have to find out, 'Why am I singing? What am I doing this for?' I do it because I enjoy it, and philosophically, music is a catalyst. It's a refining agent.

When you work for someone, you never realise how much you are learning. It is only when you leave and you reflect back on life.

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves to the answer that fits them.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

It's good to unpeel layers of yourself, and we're unpeeling layers of the group. We are growing and evolving. It'll reflect in the music.

I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.

Seeing ourselves reflected in stories gives people the courage to keep doing what they are doing or make a change.

You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

The holidays are a time of reflection, and I think it becomes really clear in people's minds around this time of year what they want to get out of life, who they want to spend their life with, and what kind of person they want to be.

I think I had a kind of pause for insight in my 20s when I wasn't in a relationship and my career wasn't going the way I wanted it to go. I had time for reflection then.

A lot of time when you're out injured is spent with internal reflection and kind of looking at yourself in the mirror and deciding who you want to be and where you fit in.

It took a lot of years of me on my own, coaching myself, to look in the mirror and love the reflection.

It's definitely something that is a direct reflection in the mirror when you do a reality show. You can see what your flaws are and what you need to work on.

Holidays are reflection time and I always take 'Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting', by Lynn Grabhorn.

I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and dark. I began to look at who I am, who I was, where I come from, what my culture is, and who I am as an African-American person in America.

I'm really growing as a woman, and it just reflects in the music.

Cutting my hair, I feel like I'm going to another level. Cutting my hair was a step for me. Anybody that has had hair for so long, when you're used to something, it's like reforming your life.

If you want people to take action,you must refrain from giving them the answers.

It was very hard for me to put my life on paper. It was a very intimate process, very psychological, but at the same time liberating. It was like cleaning the closet, like cleaning the house... It was very refreshing.

I'm actually glad I didn't watch 'The Bachelor' or 'The Bachelorette' prior to being on them. I think if I'd watched them before being a contestant, I would've over-analyzed it or tried to be something else - tried to fit into that world. Because I was so green, I was just me, and I think it was really refreshing to the people watching it.