Quotes About Self-discovery

Like a modern counterpart of a tightly-corseted Victorian, she needed to unbutton herself, learn the act of relaxation.

the more we realize we are one with God the more we become ourselves, just as we are, just as we were created to be.

We are afraid, for example, of letting others know more about us than we know about ourselves, fearing most of all that our masks will slip, and will lose control, letting others see us as we truly are.

The inner and hidden part of this wisdom is nothing else than knowing oneself thoroughly, and therefore hating oneself.

I sit and feel lonely. Sitting and feeling lonely is something I am a spectacular success at. I can do it for hours. Everyone is good at something.

Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.

Once we realize that our essential sweetness is in our minds, and that each of us has unique life-path potential not fully tethered to a body-determined route, then it is as sensible to be transhuman as it is to be transgendered. The being is mightier than the gene.

Hanno avuto troppa paura di avermi persa per sempre. E poi sono tornata. E' un miracolo. Io sono un miracolo. E loro non riescono a credere che non sparirò un'altra volta. E' buffo, io non mi sono mai considerata scomparsa. Come si sparisce da se stessi?

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

When you know yourselves,7 then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you dwell in poverty and you are poverty.

Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.

Finding your voice is like finding your self.

I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again....

Quo usque tandem ignorabitis vires vestras?' ('How long will you go on being ignorant of your strength?')

Maybe Jenny and Grace weren't so different from the butterfly… maybe they both needed to simply be who they were, stop trying to wish themselves into something else, someone else… or their color would get rubbed off… by unmet expectations, friends, family… even themselves. Maybe it was time to learn to accept who they were… time to learn to protect their color.

It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.

I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.

When Man will re-find himself, then demons with angels and God with the Devil will reconcile.

Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: ''This is the real me!''

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?