Maria Shriver Quotes

My whole life has been a search for finding myself, pretty much.

I do love the idea of people at a certain time in their lives when they're questioning, figuring out who to be. I find that interesting, but honestly, I think it's like that at every time in your life.

The purpose of life is to explore one's own life to its fullest, to explore all dimensions.

'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.

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

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

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.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

It took me a while to find myself.

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 your self emerges more clearly over time.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

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 did find my direction at an early age.

I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

I spent many years seeking self-awareness and wondering what I should be doing on this planet.

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.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

Everybody needs to find their own path and the best way for themselves to connect to this world.

I went through so many phases when I was young - surfer girl, tom boy, punk - but they weren't mistakes, just moments.

Everyone goes through that time in their life when they're trying to figure out who they are, find their own purpose and their own way.