Quotes About Self-discovery

You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.

The process is the goal.

The goal of becoming more consistent with your core authentic self is a much stronger motivator than "I need to lose 30 pounds."

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

Every man has to know what they like, and what their goals are, before creating their own diet.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No choice. However messy is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. We all at our own age have to claim something, even if it's.

Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person.

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

My inner child is not wounded.

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Women are always being tested...but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone just as wild to run with them.

You have a special place in the world. All you have to do is find it. Do not give up on yourself, on the truths you have realized. Do not give in to those who would crush your dreams like nutshells. And never turn away from forever love.