Quotes About Self-discovery

A bad day can tell you more about yourself than a good day.

I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be.

I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.

My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.

Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential.

I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.

At this point, you are so far away from what you really are, it is ridiculous. The good news is that every step you take within brings you more in touch with that which you really are.

Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.

I guess this year I'm going to find out if I'm good enough or not. If I'm not, I don't care. I'll do something else, it's not a biggie.

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen.

A good teacher always refuses to have disciples! Let everyone goes his own way, in his own path instead of following others! If the direction is correct, there will be a meeting in the same place!

So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

We are all in the process of becoming.

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

It's a beauty one isn't born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.