Kris Kristofferson Quotes

It's easy to forget who you are.

Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.

If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

I want to live a life full of purpose and intention. Sometimes when we play sports and athletics you can lose your purpose.

Football has molded me in many ways, and I've had great experiences. But when I step back, I know that football is not what drives me. It's not really what's important.

It's very important for people to know what gives them meaning. But it's hard for people to figure out if you're not connecting with yourself and taking the time to just be introspective and daydream.

Growing up all I wanted to do was score goals and celebrate with fans - somewhere in that I got lost. Football came second and it shouldn't have.

When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

I think and that is all that I am.

If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.

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.

A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

If you lose who you are, what do you have?

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.

You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.

I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.