Quotes About Self-discovery

My daughter has always had a strong sense of her own identity. From the day she was born her father and I were in love with and in awe of her and still are.

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

It's all about the journey, not the outcome.

Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

Study everything, but study yourself first.

Whenever you define who you are, you limit yourself to what you may potentially be.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Live your life so that if someone says 'Be yourself' it's good advice.

We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing.

Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. Alfred

People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.