Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

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.

My personality doesn't interest me.

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

A great epiphany: I found out that I'm totally confused and I'm good with that. I'm consistently inconsistent. I'm all of the above. I'm OK. I'm a work in progress. That's my next tattoo somewhere.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself.

One of my problems is to find the self.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

I'm going to hang out with people, and I'm going to explore myself, and I'm okay with that.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

I discovered myself!

I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.