Shawn Michaels Quotes

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

My life is better with every year of living it.

I'm very grateful for this road that I've been on - it's been a good one. It's been a tough one at times, too.

I'm really grateful for all of the things I've had to learn along the way, you know? I don't know if I would want to say anything to my younger self. That way, you know, it really means something. If you have to go through it all, it really means something.

We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

For the first five years of music and first five years of acting, I don't remember it because I was running to where I was going. Finally I was like, 'Man, I missed everything.' So I just stopped, and I started looking around.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I think I lost my sense of identity when I was married. I know I did. And it took me a very long time to regain it and find out who I was.

The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.

And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.

I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target - and future.

I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.