Quotes About Self-discovery

He rubbed at his face, as if seeking to awaken the right words from muscle, blood and bone.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.

I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.

You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.

My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.

Many of us are frightened to look within ourselves, and fear has us put up walls so thick we no longer remember who we really are.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.

Have the willingness to go into the roots of your worst fear until you feel the essence of what you are, your pure potential, the foundation of what you really are.

As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through.

When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.

You end up becoming who you are by jumping into that circle of fear - that's how it's done.

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself .

You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

When I face myself, I go, "You have a fear of really being on your own. So you know what? That's what we're gonna do right now.

Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.