Pearl Cleage Quotes

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

The only journey is the one within.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

The longest journey is the journey inward.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

The show is definitely not just about weight-loss physically. It's more about finding yourself. It's really funny because I realized at one of our table reads that 'Huge' was really about the weight that we carry around mentally.

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

You are.

For me, it really is about the self-acceptance... the more time that I spend really accepting and allowing myself to be exactly where I am, the faster it is I move towards what I wanna be doing.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

We all wait for a mirror to show us who we are, to validate us. When we hear something about ourselves that we have never heard before, it feels like a blessing, and it gives power.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

I think life is about growing into yourself and getting to like that person.