Self Discovery Quotes

"Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn’t think we needed to know." "They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself" "There is no coming to consciousness without pain." "Give up on being perfect and start becoming yourself" "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes" "What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge." "My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, it couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe." "Most of life is about searching, it’s not about finding" "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." "It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project." "There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind." "No man ever said to be original. All we can say is to be true to ourselves." "Looking back, it is not so surprising that humanity has remade itself so completely so quickly considering that it has always been an experimental animal" "I just fell in love with this notion of being able to reinvent myself, morph and change." "If we never learn to be alone, we will always feel lonely" "Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth." "I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself." "I follow the way the wind blows. I could never have expected my life to change as it did, so I never asked for it. I never asked for fame; I asked for work." "Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there " "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer"