Raven Goodwin Quotes

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

You can't run away from yourself

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

In the end I'm the only one who knows me.

We all have this [emotional] stuff we carry in an invisible suitcase. You can't keep it all, because if you keep it all, you can't move forward. But you can't let it all go, because if you let it all go, you're not yourself. The great balancing act of life is, What do I keep in here?

Everyone has something that they carry always, even if it's just as simple as, 'I hate myself.' Everyone's got a different thing.

I know during my transition it was difficult for me to stop believing I would be stuck unhappy forever, but that's not true. Physical changes take a while but internal feelings of changing and finding your peace can take way longer.

Through life's ups and downs, and the few mistakes we make and all the successes that we get, let nobody - nobody's opinion - define who you are. And if anybody defines who you are, let it be yourself.

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self.

Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

We all have to go through our own spiritual process. It is very difficult. Some people are struggling and they are in their teens. Some people are in their 50s and they're struggling. Some people go through life and die not being able to accept themselves. Tragic. But it's very individual. And it's about self-esteem.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.