Quotes About Self-discovery

I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.

I wrote songs when I was little, and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.

'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.

For me, so far, confidence has been a journey, not a destination.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway.

As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.

My hair journey involved a lot of trying to figure out how to deal with my hair as a bi-racial girl in a white community living in Long Island, N.Y., where no one had a clue what to do with it.

If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.

A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others.

I'm attracted to the journeys of isolated characters.

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.

I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.

When I started out as an actor I knew very little, which was probably a good thing. I was totally open. You don't judge yourself, you do it.

If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware of it, no matter what happens, I'm always going to have a fake self, and I'm not going to judge my fake self.

Acting lets you be in a place where no one's judging you.

In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you're grape juice. I've been at both ends. It can make you become what you really are.

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

The jungle has taught me to accept who I really am - my skin is play and freckly, my bum and hips are big, and my hair is frizzy - that's who I am.

I came out to my parents when I was a junior in college. And it was pretty fine. They were more concerned with why I wasn't dating anyone. But now I'm 36, and I still don't date anyone.

When I started playing ball as a junior, I'm kind of glad that I was never good enough to be highly recruited.

I've been bisexual for as long as I can remember. I remember being made fun of in junior high for that. It was something that was shameful, and it really shouldn't be.