Alice Sebold Quotes

As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

I think you just learn so much about yourself over the years.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

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 prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I did find my direction at an early age.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

What I use when I'm acting comes from what I learn about myself.

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

I do think of 'The Idiot,' in a way, as a self-standing book about a certain struggle to make meaning, the struggle for a girl to find meaning outside of the romance plot.

One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

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.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

My personality doesn't interest me.

What you are is a question only you can answer.