Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
What matters is not what is being done of us, but what we do ourselves with what has been done of us.
Original (French):
L’important n’est pas ce qu’on fait de nous mais ce que nous faisons nous-même de ce qu’on a fait de nous.
Explanation:
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952), p. 55
...the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.