Joseph Conrad Quotes

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.

In school, no one teaches you to look for things that are right for you.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

He who integrates is lost.

I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

I really wanted to find my own path.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

First you have to know who you are. That is the most important thing, as if you don't know who you are you will either get swallowed up or you follow some unsuitable trends and just become a nonentity.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.