Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.
When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.
For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.
At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free. You could be anyone, he thought. You could be anyone.
She is well practiced in the art of losing herself.
In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.
Until you find yourself, it's impossible to lose you
I find myself only by losing myself.
Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do
Miles from nowhere. Guess I'll take my time.
…balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.
How many more idols must you find before you realize that you are the one you have been searching for?
Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.
I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.
I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. When you live like that for a long time, you gradually lose track of what it is you yourself really want out of life
The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure.
You really have to know who you are. It takes, uh it's not that easy.
I walked away to get wisdom, but in the end I just walked home.
I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.
I didn't pay much attention to the whistles and whoops, in fact, I didn't quite hear them. I was full of a strange feeling, as if I were two people. One of them was Norma Jeane from the orphanage who belonged to nobody; the other was someone whose name I didn't know. But I knew where she belonged; she belonged to the ocean and the sky and the whole world.
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.
Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far, did you lose yourself somewhere out there, did you get to be a star, and don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are?
