self-discovery Quotes

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.