Quotes About Self-discovery

Every girl wants to play Bridget Jones.

I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

Scary thought - what if I get to know myself and I'm someone I don't want to be?

I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.

I'm still young and everyday I want to learn more. I feel I am beginning to find myself.

It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.

I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know.

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them - my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a wife, as a lover, as a daughter.

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

See, the same old Ella still lives." He grins... "She just needed a little push out."... "No, she doesn't. She's gone forever." "Try all you want, but I'm bringing her back.

Now all of us in our thirties are the first generation that get to say, "I don't know how I feel about that system, I don't know if I want kids, I don't know if I want to get married."

At 50, you probably get muddled? I'm the same, that's how I know? If you ever get lost, don't worry? Just change where you want to go

You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should have, because the films would probably be technically better.

My uncertain temper is cooling, as is my sense of racing against time to accomplish the things I want to. I don't have to go anywhere or see anyone I don't want to now, and it is a glorious feeling!

What will I become? Because I won't be me any longer. That will be a relief. I dont want to be the helpless person I've always been.

Children need to grow up and make their own decisions - how they want to pierce their bodies or do whatever they need to.