Quotes About Self-discovery

In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.

Sometimes you are the answer to your own prayer.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

My prayer is: I will be what I will be, I will do what I will do.

I prayed for someone to love me as much as I love you. Eventually I came to see that that "someone" was me.

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

Relationships end, but they don't end your life.

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

Sometimes you can forget about who you are in a relationship. But you can also be inspired by the person you are with to become something you always knew you wanted to become.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

I'm not prepared to sacrifice my being engaged in the world for just any relationship.

It's very fun to be single, because you know what happens? You find yourself. You understand what it means to love yourself, instead of putting all this energy into give-and-tug in a relationship.

The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.

Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself.

Fixing your heartbreak by getting into another relationship is not the way to live your life - you need to live it on your terms for a while.

The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see 'show up', not what part of another you can capture and hold.