Quotes About Self-discovery

Love teaches a man what he is. Hate teaches him what he is not.

A good And happy life has... A beginning, A middle And an end. Always start with yourself, A good heart to share And ending with your destiny. The best example being... I love you.

I don't want to cage you with my love, I want you to chose what truly makes you happy.

Your best efforts will never be enough when your best efforts are being wasted on the wrong person. We may love the wrong person, cry for the wrong person. But one thing is sure, mistakes help us find the right person. Sometimes the right person for you was there all along. You just didnt see it because the wrong person was blocking your sight.

I can be weak, but through weakness comes true strength. The strength to find love and purpose.

In life, you have two loves; one who changes the way you see yourself and the world. The other, who puts you back together after you have lost the first.

Your heart will try to change your mind but your mind knows what's best for you.

To whom it may concern, good love will find you someday. But if you keep on looking for it, it'll only keep you waiting. To whom it may concern, good love will find you someday. Till then, live well. Live happy. Live free.

If you need someone to be around to complete you, it's something missing from inside. Find that first and then get love.

What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.

We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small.

Journaling at the Beginner's Stage

What's become of my life? Why do I feel so burned out? I should be happy. I used to be happy. Where did it all go?

We are mysteries unto ourselves. Our lives come to us in random moments...Listen to the stories you tell others. The stories you repeat. The stories you want told at the end of your life. What does the story want from the listeners? What is it you need others to understand?

Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.

And I will close my eyes and prepare myself so that they can unscrew my head and allow the map to slip into my lacunae. So that I can be filled and braced from the inside and fortified for the voyage. Because without my world inside me I will contract and congeal, more even than I am now, without speech and without actions and without any purchase upon time.

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.

When you come into the real truth about yourself, you realize that the only person equipped to handle it is you. Some men can't even handle that, which is why Bellevue always full.

You different, Lilith. You have more darkness 'bout you now. You turning into woman, Homer say to her. —Me turning into something, Lilith say.

Something happen when somebody tell you something about yourself even if you already know.

Envy is what they have for us because we have one power no god can ever have, and that is the power to surprise oneself.

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.

He loved me, Mama. He just didn't know how things fall down around me like they do. I think he did the right thing. He gave himself another chance, that's all.....I was trying to say it's all right that Cecil left. It was...a relief in a way. I never was what he wanted to see, so it was better when he wasn't looking at me all the time.