Quotes About Self-discovery

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she's trying to get you to be someone you're not, she's in the wrong

I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am.

I think my mom gave me the borders, the - gave me a very clear understanding of what the perimeter was. And I had to find my fun within those boundaries.

I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.'

My mom loved the book [My beloved world] and she said to me, 'I never knew you had done so much.'

You are therefore in the process of experiencing yourself by creating yourself anew in every single moment. As am I. Through you.

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

Today - and it's happening very rapidly - money, wealth, position, birth are of no importance at all. The thing that is important is the individual you are.

The new American Dream is about having an interesting life, not making a lot of money.

In the same way that a woman becomes a prostitute. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and finally I did it for money.

You can never solve a financial problem with money. The only way for you to have a larger net worth is for you to go within to see why you are going without.

Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are.

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.

It's not going to be about money. It's going to be about who am I, what have I done and where am I going.

It's one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen?

I just want choices. Its not about making money and having a lot of friends in Hollywood; thats the last thing I want.

I had a moment where I realised I could do silly voices, that lots of people I knew couldn't do silly voices, and that thus I must be able to make money doing silly voices.

The book 'Do You!' is about your inner voice. And when you connect to that voice then you - then the freedom comes. And we're only here to be happy. So happy makes money. Money doesn't make happy.

If you can devote yourself to your favorite occupation without getting money for it, but in order to discover your potential, then you will find out who you are

If you knew the power within yourself to be truly happy, to be truly whole, then you would never ask another to become the image you desire for yourself, in order to be happy and whole.

After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

I have always been amazed at my contemporaries' lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.