Quotes About Self-discovery

What does it really mean to have something change in you very late in your life, after you've structured your life in a different way? What does it mean to be someone who has had a history of sometimes reckless living, and then to really want to change yourself?

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.

When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name.

I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

I struggled with a lot of the legacy for a long time, probably actually into my 30s before I really made peace with it.

I am that person that struggled with my identity my whole life.

I am a very opinionated person and I have stuff that I believe in. But I've always struggled to find my niche amidst it all.

I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women - including me - face. I didn't think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it.

She didn't want to disrupt her family. She didn't want to lose her family; she didn't want to hurt her children. She struggled. It was a lifelong struggle for her, being in Bruce Jenner's body.

I struggled coming to terms with the fact that I'd been assigned female at birth, but that I didn't feel like a girl or a woman or a man or a boy.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

Super Sad Generation' was essentially about the struggles that you go through when you're growing up in the world and trying to figure out what kind of person you want to be.

Identity is something everyone struggles with. Everyone wants to fit in and find their place, and it's so hard sometimes.

I would encourage anybody struggling with their sexuality to go with their heart. If it's not an appropriate time, there will be one later. Never, ever try to rush into anything - do it in your own time.

You're lucky if you find something that makes you feel like yourself; that's the one time that you feel like you know who you are. Most people are struggling to find that out all the time.

I enjoy playing characters who are struggling, particularly with themselves.

It's always interesting to see somebody struggling with two different sides of their personality.

For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul.

You don't give yourself a nickname unless you're bloody struggling.

People write me off, and yet then, when I fight people, my opponents have a completely different opinion of me afterwards.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.