Quotes About Self-discovery

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

Knowledge, you may get from books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.

Part of the great challenge of living is defining yourself in your moment, of seizing the opportunities that you are given, and of making the very best choices you can.

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.

The day she let go of the things that were weighing her down, was the day she began to shine the brightest.

Be the greatest of who you were meant to be. Life goes on ferociously – with or without you. It is your choice. Truly and magnificently your choice.

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answer lie inside of you.

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.

I believe life experiences are what an actor needs to relate to the character roles they take on, and to say the least. I've had many experiences leading up to this moment. Not only have my experiences become a tremendous asset in my acting, but also they helped me discover who I am and who I want to be.

Any relationship should have love, and if there is no love, it is better to call off a relationship. People say that love happens only once, but I don't believe in it because for me, if one relationship doesn't work, you should move on and seek love in another relationship. Who knows; you might find love in the second relationship.

Stop trying to be less of who you. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

"Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself."

I see teenagers or people who are 21 and think, 'I was an idiot at that age.' I was running around New York like a crazy woman. Thank God I only had three and a half cents to my name. I was too immature to handle success then.

How many lives are frittered away, age after age, in endless coming and going. Find out who you are!

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.

Everyone sort of feels alienated at that point, so it's hard to say whether I felt like that because everyone does or because I was so focused on acting [since the age of 8].

The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking.

I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.