Quotes About Self-discovery

The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life.

I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

When you're able to be honest with yourself about who you are and finally can present your authentic true self to the world, you feel so much better about yourself, and it makes it easier for everyone else to feel better about you.

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

It's inevitable that you find out about your true self. There was so much I realized I had to work on, to try to improve.

I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.

I am assuming my father learned at an early age that there is nothing more dangerous than showing your true self. I think a lot of us learn that, and it actually may be true.

It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.

Exmoor and Dartmoor are sacred, magical places. You find a truer side of yourself there.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

When you love someone absolutely and want them to be their truest self - even though that means losing them in some capacity - that is the most important thing.

In high school, I came out to my friends as queer. My entire world opened up; this was a monumental step toward unveiling my truest self. I had my first girlfriend when I was sixteen years old.

You're your truest self when you're young, and when somebody says something, and you're like, 'Oh, maybe I'm not normal,' you shut it down. It's always a process to rediscover those parts of yourself.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity.

In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago.

I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.

Ever since I was a little girl music was my escape and it was something that I did and was a huge part of me; aside from what my grades were in school. It was something that was truly mine.

I never thought music could also bring you personal growth, but it truly has.

The acting served as an outlet for my emotions for some time because I was doing it under the guise of someone else. And that can only be therapeutic up to a point until you truly deal with it and can express it to someone directly. Acting was a helpful outlet for me as a child. In some ways, I can say it saved my life.

I never truly got to know my grandfather before he passed away, but he inspires me to search more deeply to understand myself.