Virginia Woolf Quotes

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

I always knew I had this voice, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I realized I had the power to do something with it.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

You've got one life: find your voice within it.

The 'Housewives' has helped me find my voice. I was always a people-pleaser, and coming into a show like this, you end up losing that.

I've said very openly that the first aspect of my artistry to arrive was writing. It took me a good number of years to find my voice.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

We find our voice, we lose our voice, we retrieve it, honor it, and hopefully, learn how to share it with others and stand in the center of our power. Translation is a theme. Fear and courage are a theme.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people.

It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.

You know how they say, "Find your voice"? That's your voice, in your pajamas. And it doesn't mean that you're going to publish it or print it or people are going to see you in your pajamas. It just means you are going to construct the foundation in your pajamas, in that voice.

Gather up your courage like an armful of free clothes at a McQueen sample sale and follow your inner voice wherever it takes you.

Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.

Now, as I move through my fifties, I can be professional and domestic, creative and intellectual, patient and urgent. I have learned that we should never settle for someone else's definition of who we can be. Growing to this age, I realize, is kind of like feeling your voice deepen. It's still your voice, but it has more substance, and it sounds like it knows its own origins.

You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs your story because the world needs your voice.

I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.

All of us have at least one great voice deep inside.

Don't strive for somebody else's notion of perfection. It's an unattainable and ultimately ridiculous goal. Strive instead to be uniquely yourself and when in doubt listen to your gut, because it already knows what you want to become.

The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.