Quotes About Self-discovery

Having your own, um, cave at eighteen is pretty cool.

There was no "me" in Alchemy. Well, phonetically there was, but that wasn't the point.

Richelle Mead

Only what?" I asked. I could barely hear my own voice. He turned his gaze back to me, firm and unflinching. "Only… more human." And that was it. All the anger and sorrow vanished. There was nothing in me. Nothing at all. I was empty. "Get out," I said.

It's not about you, okay ? This time, it's about me. Not you. All my life, Lissa ... All my life, it's been the same. They come first. I've lived my life for you. I've trained to be your shadow, but you know what ? I want to come first.

You're on the verge of getting your soul and your life back and he's still what determines your happiness ? You don't need a relationship to be happy, Georgina.

I thought with all this freedom and self-discovery and expression of our love stuff that we could finally stop with the whole Zen master wisdom and practical advice crap.

I was no longer the storm-tossed heroine lost in her lover's arms. I was Sydney Sage, Alchemist and caretaker, and I was back in business.

You were right, about how I fight to stay in control. No one else has ever figured that out– and it scared me. You scare me.

One thing I'd learned growing up was that no matter who claimed you, you had to first claim yourself.

Ne-am n?scut provizoriu, undeva, apoi încetul cu încetul conÅŸtientiz?m în noi originea noastr?, ÅŸi aÅŸa renaÅŸtem mereu, de fiecare dat? mai definitiv.

What else can I tell you? It seems to me that everything has its proper emphasis; and finally I want to add just one more bit of advice: to keep growing, silently and earnestly, through your whole development; you couldn't disturb it any more violently than by looking outside and waiting for outside answers to questions that only your innermost feeling, in your quietest hour, can perhaps answer.

That's all I think I ever wanted, to go my own way and maybe find some love here and there.

Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go because no one can see me; because there's twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don't have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw...

When I talk about the God who is with us, for us, and ahead of us, I'm talking about our facing that which most terrifies us about ourselves, embracing it and fearing it no longer, refusing to allow it to exist separate from the rest of our being, resting assured that we are loved and we belong and we are going to be just fine.

It's important to embrace several truths about yourself and those around you, beginning with this one: who you AREN'T isn't interesting.

When I look far enough inside of you, I'll find me. When I look far enough inside me, I'll find you.

Your ikigai is a work in progress because you are a work in progress. Knowing your ikigai, then, takes patience and insight, and courage, and honesty.

What happens is our lives become so heavily oriented around the expectations of others that we become more and more like them and less and less like ourselves. We become split. I was split. I had this person I knew I was made to be, yet it was mixed in with all of these other ... people. As the lights were turned on, I saw I had all of this guilt and shame because I wasn't measuring up to the image of the perfect person I had in my head.

And if you keep telling people who they are, who their best selves are, if you keep reminding them of their true identity, there's a good chance they'll figure out what to

To be here is to embrace the spiritual challenge of your ikigai, doing the hard work of figuring out who you are and what you have to give the world. This is work we all have to do, because we're all a piece of work, in the endless process of exploring our ikigai.

When you do crash and burn, ask yourself lots of questions about whatever it is that happened: What can you learn here? How will you see things differently moving forward? Why did I do that? leads to, What have I learned? leads to, How will I do it differently in the future?

one of the few things I've learned is that humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn—when they do, which isn't often—on their own, the hard way.

He was delighted to recognize his own human name on two of the papers; he always got an odd thrill out of reading it, as if he were two places at once.