Quotes About Self-discovery

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-examine my priorities.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that's turning into a 'they.' My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the 'they' is out of you.

Kanye is going to have to decide early whether or not he's a Baby Bjorn guy, because the minute you put on that Baby Bjorn, there's no turning back. It's like buying a minivan. You lose a little piece of yourself when you get that Baby Bjorn.

I was always, like, ambiguous. Is that how you say it? When I was turning 16 I talked to my mom about transitioning and stuff, but that was before I went through puberty.

I think turning 30 - and same with turning 21, 25, or turning 18 - those are moments in life where something new is expected of you, or you expect something new from yourself.

Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don't feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don't feel scared to have an idea and express it.

Before turning 32 is an amazing time to do radical things. You figure out who you are while you figure out who you are not.

I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.

Applying for a job after finishing a Ph.D is about turning yourself inside out. You've been involved in the most introverted process you've ever done, and now you have to show yourself to the world at large.

All the characters I've played so far mean a lot to me, but I think Young-hee of After My Death' was a real turning point for me as an actor.

I'll start searching for that ideal partner when I turn 40. That will be a turning point in my life.

People know me as a TV actor but they don't know who the real Abhinav Shukla is.

People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself.

Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.' I'd never been to anything like it before, and all my friends were taking bets on how long I'd last with no TV, no radio, no phone. But for me that was the beginning of paying attention to all the little things.

I got asked to do loads of TV series, all sorts of things that weren't me.

Whenever we start a new TV series, there's also a lot of question marks, and part of that is finding who you are.

In my final year of law school, everything became real. Malaysian TV shows wanted me to perform big concerts. So, after graduating, I decided to go for it. I didn't think I'd be a good lawyer anyway.

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.

I went through a phase when I was 13 or 14: I would tweet emo things about my feelings and boys who didn't like me and mean girls in school.

I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.