Quotes About Self-discovery

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Starting with a gray cloud of brain cells that was subject to storms and flash floods, I had to learn to make my own internal weather.

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

I love long flights. The feeling of being completely unreachable is something I savor, and the limbolike state of being, having departed but not arrived, somehow allows me to catch up with myself, to regroup and check in.

I realized that I was living my life backwards. I had to be a grown-up when I'd been a little boy, and now I was tending to the little boy who'd never had the chance to properly play… Had I not had the childhood I did, would these traits not be so at the forefront of my personality? Who knows? All I know is that I am the product of all the experiences I have had, good and bad.

Here my advice to young gay person or actor its to be yourself and not to be pressured into what other people want you to be

Who Do You Think You Are?

I looked up at myself in the mirror of my trailer. I had just had the most horrible conversation of my life, and the very last conversation I would ever have with my tormentor. I was free of him at last. I wonder what he would have done had he known that during that conversation, I was wearing high heels, a bra and panties, and a full face of makeup.

On a clear day Rise and look around you And you'll see who you are On a clear day How it will astound you That the glow of your being Outshines every star You'll feel a part of every mountain sea and shore You can hear From far and near A word you've never, never heard before And on a clear day On a clear day You can see forever And ever And ever And ever more

Waiting for her in reception, pretending to read a paper, he was surprised by his own nervousness; an indication of how little one knew oneself. She

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way that they have been told to.

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

I imagined were his own litmus test, saying, "If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul to lose.

items that have become part of me, foliage that has grown to conceal the bare stem of my real personality, what I was like before I ever saw these books, or any book at all, come to that.

She found in him the peace she so desperately sought but never really found in herself.

If you really want to spend some years in a Japanese monastery, there is no earthly reason why you shouldn't. Or if you want to spend your time hopping freight cars and digging Charlie Parker, it's a free country.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that

Swallow it down (what a jagged little pill)