Quotes About Self-discovery

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

My clothes don't make one a different person, just more of oneself.

What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I think it's important to spend some time with oneself, and the mountains are a great place to do that. So I go hiking and trekking often.

I wish I had known that that process of figuring out what you're good at, what you want to do, and where you want to have an impact is not a one-time exercise, but an ongoing one. Instead, I bought into success being an endpoint rather than a constant process.

'Obvious Child,' the short, had a nice life online and a great festival run, but the short and the feature still stand apart from everything else I've done. I play a woman who you might meet in life. My other work is much more heightened.

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

I grew up as an only child.

I was an only child, so I was alone a lot.

I grew up an only child, and I always felt as if I didn't fit in. In middle school, in grammar school, and even high school, I just didn't feel like I fit in.

Being an only child, you just have a lot of time on your hands, figuring things out. Just doing music, man - music just came to me.

I grew up looking for myself onscreen and never could find myself. And I believe that I am supposed to be Toula to show people that it's O.K. to be different.

We were always in church, and always singing, so once I realized that music was something that I had a knack for, I sort of latched onto it, and it helped give me an identity and figure out who I was as a person. It informed my way into theater, which informed my way into television.

Sometimes I'm just like, 'I cannot hold onto this anymore,' and it's time to say something. And at the end of the day, I've just got to let it go and be true to myself. Whatever comes out comes out.

I think with how society makes me feel like I should grasp onto the inner strength of me being a woman, and I felt like it was all just very much married into what I'm listening to, what I'm writing, how I'm feeling.

I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.

Not accepting where I came from, and who I am as a person, the voice, you know, the appearance, the everything. 'Drag Race' has opened my eyes to see there's so much more than where I came from and to, like, not hold that against myself.

Everyone has their own journey, and for me, going from singing background to writing songs has truly opened doors for me and has also helped me find myself as an artist in terms of what I want to say and the style of music I want to have.

I have had my eyes opened to a different side to me. I'm a much happier person. There was always this Jekyll and Hyde thing with me.

'Dragons' Den' and 'The Apprentice' have opened people's eyes to what they can do.

I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.

I've become more comfortable with opening up.

Everybody's opening up their own lane and it just makes you feel O.K. to showcase what you've got.