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Quotes About Self-discovery

I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician. My intent wasn't to save the world as much as to heal myself.
~ Abraham Verghese
It's been a long time since I've wanted to die, it makes me feel like taking off my skin suit and seeing how my light flies all on its own, neon and bouncy like a wannabe star.
~ Ada Limón
It wasn't until later, when I moved in with him and stood outside on our patchy imperfect lawn, that I remembered what had been circling in me: I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying.
~ Ada Limón
It's been a long time since I wanted to die, it makes me feel like taking off my skin suit and seeing how my light flies all on its own, neon and bouncy like a wannabe star.
~ Ada Limón
What I know now is she wanted something else for me. For me to wake each morning and recognise my own flesh, for this one thing she made—me—to remain how she intended, for one of us to make it out unscathed
~ Ada Limón
Rather than looking outward in an attempt to predict the outcome, you turn inward to your identity. You base the decision on who you are--or who you want to be.
~ Adam Grant
Once in a while the most irritating, disappointing individual in our life shows us our most prominent lesson.
~ Adam Green
Our excesses are the best clue we have to our own poverty, and our best way of concealing it from ourselves.
~ Adam Phillips
I do have brown eyes, something that I had established a few years ago, with the less exciting technology of a mirror. Nevertheless, it is nice to have it confirmed at a molecular biological level. The
~ Adam Rutherford
The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
~ Adam Smith
When we are rested, we notice desires as well as lies buried in our souls.
~ Adele Ahlberg Calhoun
I'm beginning to grow into who I thought I might be.
~ Adele Parks
You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much. That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste. If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself.
~ Adrian Tan
I've never felt that I had to take a role in order to further my career. I'm always looking for roles that challenge me as an actor and as a person.
~ Adrien Brody
You have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life" Margot said. I smiled at her, not fully understanding what she was saying but feeling a small ping of comprehension, an olive pit smacking the wall of my consciousness. "You can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself" Margot promised.
~ Adrienne Brodeur
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
~ Adrienne Brodeur
Books will change your lie, Rennie... you have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life' Margo said... 'you can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself'...
~ Adrienne Brodeur
You can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself," Margot promised.
~ Adrienne Brodeur
Books will change your life, Rennie," Mrgot told me, handing me a copy of A Room of One's Own. You have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life," Margot said.
~ Adrienne Brodeur
You have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life," Margot said.
~ Adrienne Brodeur
A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.The beak that grips her, she becomes.
~ Adrienne Rich
The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
~ Adrienne Rich
We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the one who find our way back to this scene carrying a knife, a camera a book of myths in which our names do not appear.
~ Adrienne Rich
I write for the still-fragmented parts in me, trying to bring them together. Whoever can read and use any of this, I write for them as well.
~ Adrienne Rich