Ryan Kwanten Quotes

You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next.

The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

You have to figure out 'who am I?' 'What do I want to do?' 'What do I want to say?'

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

If you have a sense of your place in the world, that's the best preparation for anything.

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.

I had always wanted to belong, and I had been thinking that this was going to get solved when I had money, and instead, I had no idea how I wanted to live my life. And no one teaches you what to do after you achieve financial independence. So I had to confront that.

I backpacked all around the world and kind of found myself. Then I settled back in L.A. and found 'Rookie Blue.'

If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.