Quotes About Self-discovery

I started writing for myself when I didn't know how to understand how I was feeling, and I didn't know how to talk to people about it, so I would break into the subconscious to try and understand what I was going through.

The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.

About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually felt that I was good at. I wasn't a mathematician. Didn't like science, any of those subjects. English and Drama were the two subjects that I loved and felt that I was good at.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

I am a woman of substance and there's a lot inside me. I have had my own struggles and my journey.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

When I was growing up, I always felt a bit like I didn't quite fit in, a feeling that perhaps still lingers in the background to this very day. I was the small brown girl in the big white suburb.

I always found it interesting when you went off to college, people would talk about how you go and search for your own identity. A lot of suburban middle-class kids would be shopping for identities and they would co-opt identities from other cultures.

Another thing about knowing who you are is that you know what you should not be doing, which can save you a lot of heartaches and false starts if you catch it early on.

we steady thud of wind with lungs that empty moon, fill it back up with shine, feed my feet to pig iron anklets biting flesh where i am link. i will break. bleed, crack. shatter. crush. i'ma smash outta this choir, come up gasping new breath, my name burned clean, made mine

Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

Being alone doesn't necessarily mean that you're lonely.

Who you are at 20 will not be who you are at 40 and if it is, SOMETHING IS WRONG!

I started writing to deal with my childhood abuse and to help me get over it. I began putting my thoughts on paper because I saw a show on Oprah where she said it was "cathartic" to write things down. Being from a substandard public school system, I didn't even know what "cathartic" meant. I had to look it up. So I started writing, but I didn't

When people have never felt the power of their own wings, they can't imagine taking flight.

Hell, sit back and work on yourself. How are you going to offer something to somebody else if you ain't been to visit you yet?

I am who I am today because my mama mama'd me.... Every accolade I get, every accomplishment I've achieved, all my iconic moments and catchy coined phrases (Smize, boo!) are because of her. I am her creation. Her FrankenTy.

When you step Out of Your Comfort Zone, it is important to stop stepping before you get into the Uncomfy Zone. Out of Your Comfort Zone feels new and exciting, and you're discovering aspects of yourself you never knew existed. The No-Go Zone is where you do things that make you feel worse (not better) about yourself, and where you make choices you might regret. Avoid the No-Go Zone at all costs.

Not answers, but the ending of questions, is the important thing.

Don't follow me, I'm lost.

What terrible shame overcomes me when I discover the male or female in myself!

My biggest fear is that I will become too comfortable with the idea of being lonely for the rest of my life.

Sometimes the best way to figure out who you are is to get to that place where you don't have to be anything else.