Gayle Forman Quotes

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

Sometimes life is so crazy, you have to go through something to be able to find out what you're supposed to talk about next, and I think that's what happened to me.

Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.

You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today.

Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.

I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.

Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

I usually congratulate people when they tell me, "I don't know who I am anymore".

If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.

I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.

It's in every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.

At 26, I barely knew who I was.

After the Pussycat Dolls, I was burnt out. So when I left them in 2010, I did take a second to say, 'Right, I've done this for seven years. Who the hell am I as an individual? Do I still want to do this?'

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.