Quotes About Self-discovery

I'm okay with the path that I'm on, but it's fascinating to think, 'I could've been a gay guy in Key West. I could be working at an insurance company in Lansing. But somehow, this is what's happening.'

I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

For me, I remember being 19 and coming out as bi to all of my friends. I'd had girlfriends, and all of these experiences and such, and then, as I got older, I started identifying as gay.

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

In order to date, you need to make up your mind to date, meet many people, and have blind dates offered to you, but that's not easy. It's more difficult as you get older. I don't think it's possible to do something by force, either.

As I grow older, I feel like my authentic self has been able to shine through more and more, and people can see that.

I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person.

The Olympics were life-changing for me. I felt I went in as a girl and came out as a woman.

I can't hurt any more than I've been hurt, I can't cry any more than I've cried. I've been to the highest of highs and lowest of lows, so one day I'm going to find my middle ground and be happy.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.

I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.

But I don't know. Pee-wee just kind of popped out one day, pretty much fully fleshed-out and fully formed.

I've always been very much in control of my music and my image, and I think one of the things I've been lucky about is I didn't bring a label on board until I really figured out who I was.

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

One of the things I discovered about myself is I'm just really positive.

I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.

One creates oneself.

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

My films have mostly been about the rise of desire as the discovery of oneself.