Quotes About Self-discovery

Shame...is a first rate form of social control. Shame is what keeps us in line, what prevents us from discovering not so much who we are, but what we might become.

Girls don't come to the Barbizon for answers, Laura... They come to find out what questions they need to be asking.

He hated confronting those lost moments, being presented with some detail from his past and having to look on it like a stranger. It made his life feel like a made-up thing. A net full of holes.

I am not afraid of being unloved. But I am terrified of never learning to love. There,

What shall I become that I have not already become? Do we create ourselves, or are we created?

the false self must die in order for the true self to be born.

He understood then what bear it would be his lot to wrestle with. Not blacks or grizzlies. But the one that struggled for mastery within his own being and had already been identified for him: fear.

Mislila sam da ?u umaknuti tamnomu oblaku uspomena - zato sam se prijavila na ovo putovanje. Sada vidim da svijet nosimo sa sobom kamo god da krenemo. Znam da se moramo tome oduprijeti. Je li to mogu?e? Nadam se jest - ne, nadam se da jest! Svaki je ?ovjek svijet za sebe, ?itav svemir, zapravo.

The results of this diagnostic exercise should help you answer the following questions: in what spheres do you most enjoy solving problems?

Names are strange and special gifts. There are names you give to yourself and names you show to the world, names that stay for a short while and names that remain with you forever, names that come from things you do and names that you receive as presents from other people. If your name is true, it is who you are.

If I took my time, sampled every possibility, eventually I'd hit on the perfect combination and come into my own.

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

People get it wrong and think it's about being good enough, when in reality it's about being lost and not knowing it.

But I remain what I was when I started my vocation, my pilgrimage of self-discovery: a black preacher. It is for that reason that I don't want to—really, I can't afford to—give up on the possibility that white America can definitively, finally, hear from one black American preacher a plea, a cry, a sermon, from my heart to yours.

Are you capable of flying, or will you stay grounded like all the others, too scared to break free from the herd and become what you have it in you to be? What is the Holy Grail? You are, if you choose it to be so!

If we see ourselves as alienated from God, we have a huge problem. That's exactly what the Abrahamic faiths do to us – they alienate us from who we really are, from our divine spark. Instead of making us search for God inside ourselves, they project God onto an external figure; remote, alien, infinitely high above humanity.

If you want to be a real person living in the real world, the first thing you must do is get off the grid. Take the first brave step and delete your Facebook profile. After all, you surely wouldn't want the words carved on your headstone to be: "I was registered with Facebook. I had 101 online friends (and I even knew a few of them). My current mood is: Sad.

The kingdom of God is within us. Now go inside yourself and find it!

Solitude bestows an increase in something valuable. I can't dismiss that idea. Solitude increased my perception. But here's the tricky thing: when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. There was no audience, no one to perform for. There was no need to define myself. I became irrelevant.

the true solitary does not seek himself, but loses himself.

This loss of self was precisely what Knight experienced in the forest. In public, one always wears a social mask, a presentation to the world. Even when you're alone and look in a mirror, you're acting, which is one reason Knight never kept a mirror in his camp. He let go of all artifice; he became no one and everyone.

There was no audience, no one to perform for. There was no need to define myself. I became irrelevant.

He does not care if people fail to understand what he did in the woods. He didn't do it for us to understand.

When one experiences silence, absent even reading, the cerebral cortex typically rests. Meanwhile, deeper and more ancient brain structures seem to be activated—the subcortical zones. People who live busy, noisy lives are rarely granted access to these areas. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.