Quotes About Self-discovery

If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

If the advice is simply to respect yourself and follow the path that you want to follow, that would be the best advice I could ever pass on.

When you're young, whatever you do that makes you stand out is a frightening thing. You learn later that that's what you want to do, stand out.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

I want you to see that the person I glimpsed running beside the camel, running to save my life, is the person you can choose to be.

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.

I feel like there are so many people I admire for so many reasons that I can't look at one person's life and say, "I want that life." I want to make my own history.

I wanted it in the way you sometimes want to jump into very cold water, even though you know it won't feel good. I wanted to go numb. To see what it felt like to be someone else.

I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.

And what if I don't want forgiveness?

Turning a breakup into a break-over ... We want women to know that as bad as it can be, it can also be an opportunity to reinvent yourself.

Back in those days it was just me swimming around in the dark, doing back flips and taking naps whenever I want.

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I'm half ground, that I don't want to be a sausage after all.

Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story.

Our opportunity now is to decide to change what we want, to seek what we actually came here to experience, rather than what we've been told by our culture that we are supposed to be experiencing.

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.

I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.

The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.