Quotes About Self-discovery

Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.

It's hard to define change in oneself unless something really dramatic happens, like you give up some vice, fall in love, or something like that.

I've spent a lot of my life forcing myself to do the right thing, and nowadays, I've just forgotten about all that. It's far more romantic just to let all your vices and fetishes come out and shine.

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

'Victory' is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It's just about reaching a place in myself.

When I was 18 or 19, I realized that everything I was doing was connected to music - writing, doing videos, making my clothes. It all centered around being an artist. So I released a mixtape that I made in my bedroom, and it ended up getting a lot more attention than I expected.

I really would not be where I am today if I hadn't done those PUP videos. It just showed me so much. It taught me so much about music and acting and being your own boss.

My videos are meant to make people look at themselves at the end of the day. They all have a message.

I didn't understand how difficult it would be to transition in the public eye and look back at pre-transition videos - it's sort of humiliating and painful.

I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist.

There are a lot of coming out videos of people who are gay or lesbian, and they're so confident. But it made me cry because I'm not that. I don't know who I am 100 percent.

Make an account, start uploading videos, and then be yourself; it's very cliche, but no one else can do it.

I think I have more fun making jokes online and making stupid Instagram videos than I do in my real life, on stage.

We don't always have an accurate view of our own potential. I think most people who are frightened of public speaking and can't imagine they might feel different as a result of training. Don't assume you know how much potential you have. Sometimes the only way to know what you can do is to test yourself.

By 30, I was separated from my husband, and I clearly remember sitting in my lovely office with a magnificent view, staring at a very lucrative pay stub, and bursting into tears because I was just miserable. So I had to make a decision: Keep following my plan, or be honest with myself and search for my true passion.

As long as it's making you happy and you're enjoying it, then you should never stop writing music. Whether it's going to take you somewhere, viewed by other people, or it's literally you in a bedroom at home, it should be something that you do for yourself.

I got to build a career on signing with a record label that viewed me as a partner and not as an artist who didn't know who she was.

No matter how old you get, you're always capable of surprising yourself.

Everyone should know what it's like to get a C.

Many young girls make that mistake at one time or another—they lose themselves in a boy.

But she understood from watching her mother that there was a cost to beauty—you were chained to it for years, and when it finally released you, you didn't know who you were anymore.

I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.

locking myself in a shell of an existence isn't healing. It's hiding.

For the first time perhaps ever, I am not denying the truth of all of my cracks. I am living them.