Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

To change what you get you must change who you are.

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

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

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.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

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

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

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.

Questions that have no right to go away are those that have to do with the person we are about to become; they are conversations that will happen with or without our conscious participation.

Writing has certainly helped me explore about 20,000 versions of my authentic self. I suppose that's what most writers discover if they write long enough: there are a lot of selves roaming around in there.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

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.

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

Every role that one does - at least, that's what happens in my case - becomes a sort of therapy.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.