“Before 2010, I had a vision. I saw a family in my mind that I wanted to have. And I was pushing and driving hard for my picture, and then I realized everyone has their own journey. I have to support what they want to do. I have to support the vision that they have for themselves, not my vision. That was excruciating for me.” WantMindHardWantedVisionSupportSawsJourneyI RealizedDrivingPushing Author:Will Smith
“After my early days of being a passionate young Elvis fan, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc. I got interested in Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got turned on to the blues. I realized how important it was to our music in England at the time. Everyone was into the blues. Then you start looking at the different kinds of blues, and you follow the journey backwards from Chicago to earlier times back down to the Delta to the Memphis Blues.” KindLittlesImportantDifferentYoungJourneyFansEnglandPassionateI RealizedEtcChicagoRaysDifferent KindsBackwardsChuckBerriesMemphisDelta Author:Ian Gillan
“When I started out, I wanted to have everything solved by the time I was 30. That didn't happen. Instead, I realized that the journey is the destination, that the work.” HappensWantedJourneyI RealizedDestination Author:Lewis Schiff
“I realized that Owen [Suskind] is completely brilliant, because he embraced and memorized all these classic Disney films - these fables that chronicle the hero's journey, and have existed for thousands of years. Owen, in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.” PeopleYearsFilmMoralJourneyGrewHeroGrew UpMythGuidesBrilliantI RealizedDietsClassicExpertsThemeFablesChroniclesDisney Film Author:Roger Ross Williams
“When you're young and you don't grow up with a silver spoon in your mouth, what do you do? You do stuff that you're positive about to help you better your family and your life. That's basically where I was. I wanted to sing, that's what I knew I could do. With that, I really didn't know what that meant. Along the journey I realized what that meant and why I wanted to sing.” KnowsHelpingWantedYoungGrowsStuffGrowing UpJourneyMouthsI RealizedOur FamilySilverSpoonsSilver Spoons Author:Tiffany Villarreal
“Divorce is the hardest obstacle I've had to overcome in my life. I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce. When I reached that crossroad, I felt like such a failure. After years of therapy together, I realized that staying together was emotionally destructive. My husband didn't want the divorce, but I did. So there was a lot of bitterness initially. Although we are still divorced, we still call each other "family." It was a journey to get there, but it's a beautiful place to be.” PeopleBelieveTogetherBeautifulJourneyHusbandMarriedOvercomingObstaclesDivorceI RealizedTherapyMy HusbandBitternessDivorcedBeautiful Places Author:Regina King
“East of the sun and west of the moon.' As unfathomable as the words were, I realized I must figure them out, reason it through. For I would go to this impossible land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. From the moment the sleigh had vanished from sight and I could no longer hear the silver bells I knew that I would go after the stranger that had been the white bear to make right the terrible wrong I had done him.... All that mattered was to make things right. And I would do whatever it took, journey to wherever I must, to reach that goal.” ReasonDoneMomentsGoalWhiteSunImpossibleJourneyLandFiguresBearsTerribleMoonSightLaysWestStrangerEastI RealizedSilverBellsUnfathomableSleighsMake Things RightSilver Bells Author:Edith Pattou