Quotes About Self-discovery

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

I'd think, That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me then; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted. It don't seem like I ever have been me.

A man has to know he had a choice before he can enjoy what he chose. I know now. That a human has to make it with other humans . . . before he can make it with himself.

Boy, if you ain't a case: waiting someday to be a something to a Somebody you don't even know, yet.

I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that.

Once you start to listen to your voice, you start to feel the power in that.

How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path.

This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.

I'm starting to believe in the power of a name. Because it can't be a mistake if I just call it 'change.'

Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.

I always knew I had this voice, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I realized I had the power to do something with it.

How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

Don't try to change the world. To find yourself in a new world, change your thoughts.

People who avoid their fears also avoid their power.

You do not need any more strength. You need only to realize how strong you already are.

I did not need him to survive. He inspired me to find that strength in myself.

The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.

Stop being a mystery, discover yourself!

When you sit alone and think out your thoughts … then that is your loudest cry!

No longer do I fear. No longer do I let others define me. I know what I am. What I'm capable of. That I'm a girl... a woman who will fight to survive.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.