Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

Half my life is an act of revision.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

I think I surprise myself.

I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.

When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

When I look in the mirror, I see an ever-unfolding process.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

Who ARE You?" This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

When I stopped drinking... there were so many things I had to face that I didn't even realize were part of my makeup before. When you do that and have any changes that severe, you lose a lot of things, both good and bad.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

I always wanna be in the process of evolving and growing.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.

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.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

Who you are and what you think of yourself is constantly changing.