Quotes About Self-discovery

I fail to see where it would have been more uplifting for them to have been inside a church listening to a man urging them to "contemplate the sufferings of our Lord," which is just another way of punishing one's self for nothing. It is very much better for them to climb the rocks in their bare clean feet and meet Him face to face in their search for the eternal in beauty.

She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

She had found a jewel down inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around.

She had an inside and outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.

This freedom is a funny thing,' he told them. 'It ain't something permanent like rocks and hills. It's like manna; you just got to keep on gathering it fresh every day. If you don't, one day you're going to find you ain't got none no more.

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.

I was 12 years old when I first moved to New York, and at that age, you're trying to find yourself. It was hard being so different from everyone I was around, and I felt that nobody could really understand me because everyone was American, and I was this little English girl with an accent.

I feel like it has been a journey throughout the years to be accepting of my culture - I always felt different and not as accepting of it.

If you happen to be in an environment where people are not accepting of who you are, you just need to know that's not always the way it will be.

You know what you have achieved and what you have been through.

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

I wanted to become an actor, but I didn't want to admit it.

I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18.

Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

Being single has its own advantages and it's a fun thing.

I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead.

I was the only actor in my family. I wasn't given a lot of advice; I had to work it out.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

I think when you're put into a completely different situation and environment, you really see who you are. You're not affected by what's around you. You are who you are.

You don't make a decision about being a writer. There was a point, aged 21, when it became clear that this is who I am. The choice is how good you are going to be at it and how hard you are going to work.

Everybody agreed I had all this talent, but I didn't know what to make of it.

My father always used to ask me what my aim in life is. I used to tell him I don't have any.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.