Quotes About Self-discovery

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.

The only thing I have learned is to find strength in yourself. No one can help you, no one can do anything for you, you have to do the work yourself.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.

Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

You've got to find what you love.

That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.

Everything in the universe wants to be loved and accepted. Our personal work is to find the love and acceptance within ourselves.

Work hard, be yourself, and have fun!

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

I have been able to find out what I really really want to do myself, trying out ideas that I haven't been able to do before because you don't have to compromise when you work by yourself.

People must work things out for themselves. It is no good saying, "I have found a house which suits me and therefore everybody must adopt the same kind of house."

I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.

It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

In my work, I'm passionate about trying different things and being okay if I mess up. Now I'm trying to bring that into my own life.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.