Quotes About Self-discovery

I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'

I'm nervous about moving away from my family. That's one thing that I'm really scared of, but I feel like it'll be good for me to live on my own for a bit and really knuckle down on what I really love and study.

During every book, I have a nervous breakdown. Usually it's about two thirds of the way through the book - I'm just comatose on the couch for at least a week, and I eventually break through it and have an answer about how to fix the thing.

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What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

For me, becoming the best you can be in something that you love, like rowing, is incredibly challenging, and what you learn about yourself, the sense of satisfaction as you get older and move on, you'll never forget that. It's huge.

I'm not Laverne Cox. I'm not Janet Mock... I'm just a girl from New Jersey who has experience and lived.

I found a new life in painting, maybe because I think I've found myself. I'm so much more comfortable with myself now that, with every decision I make, I can go all out.

I found a new love of the game, and a new confidence and self-awareness of what I can bring to the game.

Over the years, I've tried to find myself, tried to find out who I really was. I ended up coming full circle, a circle that took me back to that street fighter I started as: Diego Sanchez, from 'Burque,' New Mexico, fighting on the streets.

I feel like, every six months, I learn my hair or my skin anew and find a new thing that I like to do, and then I abandon it and move on.

Every day, I'm learning new things about myself. Every day, I'm learning new things about life.

I'm always learning new things about myself.

I'm still learning new things about myself every day.

With every film that I am doing I am learning new things either about myself, or about filmmaking.

Sometimes getting beaten isn't such a bad thing. It gives me a chance to look at myself in a new way.

I don't think I constantly have to be on a promotional spree or be seen in the newspapers every day or even be part of social parties and film gangs. I'm having my own set of journey, and I am happy with it because I don't want to be like everybody.

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

It's nice to take the gloves off, to really examine your character's desires and goals.

This is the time for me to step out and show that I don't just want to play the nice guy roles, and I think I'll find out what my limits are.

I never held myself as a nice person for most of my life.

'Hello' was a niche film with no high levels of energy. It had no much happiness, no much dance in its screenplay. But it did a lot of good for me. I was in a negative space before it happened.