Quotes About Self-discovery

Whenever I am confused about what to do in life, I quietly sit down and think about where I have been and compare this to where I might want to go in future. The answer to the next step just comes to me from inside myself.

Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again

A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.

A novel is a mirror walking down a road

country highway. He sensed that he was

Days pass and years pass and you light the holy candle of yourself by the glimmer of someone else, and just when you think you're burned out on her, you realize that she's the single thing that raises you above yourself. And now she's dumped you flat and taken up with a lumberjack or that sensitive guy in town who runs the bookstore or the FedEx man who wears tight shorts in the summer. That guy? How could she?

THE MORE SHE FOUND HERSELF, THE LESS SHE FELT THE NEED TO FIND A MAN THAT MADE HER FEEL LIKE SHE WAS WORTHY. A MAN'S JOB IS NOT TO GIVE A WOMAN HER CROWN. IT IS ONLY THEIR JOB TO RESPECT IT. (Sign)

THE MORE SHE FOUND HERSELF, THE LESS SHE FELT THE NEED TO FIND A MAN THAT MADE HER FEEL LIKE SHE WAS WORTHY. A MAN'S JOB IS NOT TO GIVE A WOMAN HER CROWN. IT IS ONLY THEIR JOB TO RESPECT IT.

If I become the man you want, I wouldn't be the man I am.

In a deep psychological sense, we have no self unless we have a secret. We grab for them whenever we begin losing ourselves in our social group or work or marriage. We reassert our identity as somebody apart.

Tell me, storyteller, what is the greatest mistake a parent can make? -To believe that your children will be just like you

The only mystery that realy needs to be discovered is the one within us

But he'd never been in love. He knew that was what he was really asking himself. He'd never given himself to someone else completely. He'd always held something back, even if he hadn't known that he was doing it. He'd reserved the deepest part of him, the part that truly was him, because he'd feared that once he gave it away he would never get it back.

Why is it that you have to warn people about who you are? Why can't it just be something that happens?

One of the best T-shirts I ever saw,said: i was happy once,but i'm better now.

They originally turned into superheroes when they were running from something they didn't like about themselves... All those superheroes were doing was fighting themselves.

Powerful Leaders intentionally pursue their vocation of who they are not a career of what they do; what's calling you?

I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.

A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.