Quotes About Self-discovery

I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.

True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you're already learning how to make it less harmful.

They will call you crazy once you stop living someone else's dream and start living your own.

Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present in your own presence. Give yourself the gift of your own Self.

Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them - the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

As we speed along this endless road to the destination called who we hope to be, I can't help but whine, 'Are we there yet?'.

Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

I hope people can see us SHINee, who are doing what we can do now, as we are.

The greatest value comes from loving yourself for who you are. I've been teaching myself this for years, so I hope that by showing what I've learned, others can find the same freedom and joy I have.

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

Like anything, you just need to stay true to who you are and hope that social constructs don't get in the way of accomplishing your goals.

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?

I hope I get the bliss. And I know I'm going to have to work for it. But I've got to say, really, I have no kind of, can I say "secular religiosity"? ... I don't have a denominational sight.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me.

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.