Jenny Downham Quotes

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

You only know who you think you are. You sort of feel like you could change at any minute.

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

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

A great epiphany: I found out that I'm totally confused and I'm good with that. I'm consistently inconsistent. I'm all of the above. I'm OK. I'm a work in progress. That's my next tattoo somewhere.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

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

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

A really big thing I've learned - and I think it's so liberating - is when you realize no one knows what they're doing.

I am not sultry. I don't know what I am.

Like most people in college, I just wasn't really sure who I was.

I started coming into my own at 30, discovering what's important to me, not caring what other people think.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

I don't feel rushed to figure myself out. I have all the time in the world to do that.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

If someone comes in and says, "What are you doing," if I'm honest, the answer is, "I don't know. But I'm doing THIS, don't know why."

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.