Quotes About Self-discovery

Breaking free of limiting beliefs is like breaking the chains that bind you.

You experience a change in how you see yourself, transitioning from feeling like a victim to someone who has not only survived but has healed.

When we heal from trauma, what was shattered becomes whole again. We learn to claim aspects of self that got lost or frozen and integrate these with our growing capacities. Part of this will involve a new identity that grows out of this process. As we recognize our resources and our wholeness, a new me is born, one whose sense of value has been restored.

I tell her I won't [forget who I am], even though I'm still trying to figure it out.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about who you are.

Don't worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.

If you're solving someone else's problem, you're constantly stabbing in the dark. When you solve your own problem, the light comes on.

If I want to know something, I'll go find it. I don't want to be pulled to anything.

The story of who you are, were, will be: you don't have to accept any of this. If you want, bypass selective editing and let the whole thing go. All of it. Stay on the blank page as long as you want; then write a new story if you like. Just remember that you'll have to write in roles for other people that they like if you want others to play along.

When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.

I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.

I am beyond good and evil at this point. I am beyond the lines drawn in the sand by society at this juncture. I am beyond fear, beyond religion, beyond the morals and mores. I am Lord of the Fucking Flies. Do you understand?

Find some humility, or it will find you.

Will I be able to spare my heart while dissecting memories of the past?

Learning about ourselves can be painful—sometimes brutally so—and the feedback is often delivered with a forehead-slapping lack of awareness for what makes people tick. It can feel less like a "gift of learning" and more like a colonoscopy.

It is said that all advice is autobiographical

We Each Know Ourselves Better Than Anyone Else Can.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.

losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine

10 maggie and millie and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and millie befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were and molly was chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world & as large as alone For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea

as small as a world and as large as alone For whatever we lose(like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea

It takes maturity and tenacity on our part to achieve wholeness, and that means persistently dealing with our pain.