Quotes About Self-discovery

When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.

Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.

Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.

You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.

Separation can make us feel helpless and powerless, like we have no control. To withstand this negative force, we must return to our inner core, and that takes work. That takes time and patience.

All of my unconscious fears were in my face about letting go of the current identity. A lot of the thoughts that came up were fear-based and false, so I had to work to let them go.

I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck

In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the void with self-actualization.

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

I have a very strong work ethic, and I'm very grateful for that. But I think there was a moment when I realized, "Oh, I can play a little as well."

Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of.

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.

At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

A lot of my work is process-oriented. I delve into my work and sit alone in silence and work with the material and process it, like talking to yourself.

I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.

My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.

All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. Its kind of self-therapy.

As you continue the work of acknowledging and claiming the gifts of your past and standing in the power of your present, you are freeing up enormous reserves of creative energy.

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

Now I'm able to align my work and creative life with who I am.

What I found is, really, you always have to begin by nailing what is true about you, because something that works very well for someone else might not work for you at all.

I think that the process of figuring out what kind of leader I wanted to be was challenging, because as an actor, you work alone, really.