Quotes About Self-discovery

I've turned 30 now and, although there will always be a bit of the rock chick in me, I'm trying to embrace my softer and more feminine side. And I am trying really hard to be healthy.

If you connect with a greater part of yourself, I call it higher self, but that's an experience, and when you do this, knowledge comes in, including intuition, and it's always about, 'What's my heart's sole desire?'

I don't want my own life to be solely about preserving my parents' lives.

I had been wanting to peel back the layers of who I am for so long, but I felt like I needed to prove how solid my work is first.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

In solitude, we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours.

Solitude helps you reflect.

Breaking apart from someone you love very much can be unbearably painful, but finding yourself again can be a beautiful thing if you do your solitude right.

There's a difference between loneliness and solitude. You pursue solitude, I think. But loneliness is a completely different isolating thing.

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

I didn't choose solitude.

If you're constantly stimulated by being called away to the buzzing and the excitement of what's on your phone, solitude seems kind of scary.

When I was on the road with Billy Bragg, it was cool because I was doing the whole thing solo and travel a lot by myself, which I quite like. I mean, I love being with friends, but it's kind of nice having that alone time.

My solo music started as a way to really look inwards, and to spend time completely by myself with an instrument, without any outside dialogue.

I feel like there's something in me that desires to express myself even more and not be so afraid of a solo endeavor.

The reason I started drag in the first place is because I felt like I never really fit in, and I still don't feel like I fit in to any of those places: the drag world, the circus world or the burlesque world. I'm kinda this combination of everything, so it made sense to me that I'd set out to do my own solo show.

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

The only solution to the education system is to find yourself.