Quotes About Self-discovery

I'm just that quiet girl who tries to be nice to everyone, who tries to understand everything, but still cannot escape the darkness that surrounds me. I'm that girl who tries to find herself, but has no luck doing so. I'm that girl who can never find Mr.Right or Ms. Right. I'm that girl who everyone forgets. I'm unique and awkward at times, but I can be funny or anything else anyone wants me to be. That's who I am.

It's your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world, making the most of one's best.

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.

In life, don't give away so much of yourself for anyone... that when it comes to finding yourself, you'd be lost.

Sometimes we have to run away from the people we love. Not because we want them to realize your worth, but for us to realize our own worth.

With constant guidance and direction the opportunity is lost to understand one's worth, and the ability to learn and discover one's true abilities diminishes.

If you are in a relationship that does not help you feel good about yourself, but instead eats away at your feelings of self-worth, it becomes critical to end it..

Without you knowing your worth, it's hard to realize what you stand for, the vital weapon to be successful in life is to know yourself and what you want.

I might not get exactly what I wish and pray for. All I know is God will give me the people who I need. The people who will help me get up when I have fallen down, to hurt me when I need to become stronger, to leave me when I need experience, to love me when I am lonely, to tell me how beautiful I am when I feel upset about myself and to make me the person I was meant to be.

No matter how bad your situation is, you always have the freedom to discover something good about yourself.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and to discover the prisoner was you.

It can take a lifetime for many people to come to terms with the freedom they truly have to think for themselves. But this path to freedom is obstructed by societal myths, one of which would have us believe that once we have completed adolescence, we can't change much. In reality, we are able to change and grow throughout our lifetime - even in the subtlest ways.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if hes does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Freedom comes when you learn to let go. Creation comes when you learn to say no.

Freedom is from within.

When you find that one part of yourself that wants freedom from fear more than it wants the freedom fear promises, youve found the real beginning of the end of fear.

We spend the first half of our lives trying to grow up and the other half trying to figure out how we got so old!

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible, that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between the day child and the night child." (2003, p. 26)