David A. Bednar Quotes

Some lessons take years to learn, with repeated exposure to the same path sometimes shadowed by the inner conscience of own souls. But eventually we learn, and our journey continues in another direction.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

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.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

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.

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

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

We get so swept up in sort of what the media tells us to care about and all these other influences that we really have to dig down deep and figure out what is it that we as human beings really care about and want for ourselves. When you figure that out, you see who you really are.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your true authentic self is at the core of that as you're playing all these different roles, and man, that self-awareness starts to come into effect. And you start to see who you really are.

I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.