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Quotes About Self-discovery

To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.
~ Alvin Ailey
When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Life is full of challenges. How you handle these challenges is what builds character. Never be afraid to be who you are.
~ Erin Brockovich
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
~ John Ortberg
If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.
~ Ziggy Marley
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
~ Erich Fromm
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.
~ M. Scott Peck
Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
~ Viola Davis
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
~ Eckhart Tolle
You never know every part of yourself because you never encounter yourself in all situations.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Rachel, Rachel—what am I?" The strobe of colors felt like a smile or a flash of relief. "That's a tough one, Borne. I don't know what you are." "Am I a squirrel?" "I don't think so." "Am I a fish?" "Definitely not!" "Am I a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ fox?! Secretly raised as a common animal. But really a royal fox. Most royal of foxes. First among fox-kind." I
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Rachel, Rachel—what am I?" The strobe of colors felt like a smile or a flash of relief. "That's a tough one, Borne. I don't know what you are." "Am I a squirrel?" "I don't think so." "Am I a fish?" "Definitely not!" "Am I a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ fox?! Secretly raised as a common animal. But really a royal fox. Most royal of foxes. First among fox-kind." I shook my head. "No, not a fox.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
If I went rummaging through your carcass, would I find you?
~ Jeff Vandermeer
There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.
~ Jeffrey Archer
I am, I suppose, a mystic. I have never been at home in organized religion, but have had to find my own path and decipher my own truths. Without either Jung or alchemy, though, my efforts would have failed.
~ Jeffrey Raff
Having a successful life and business requires that we first learn who we are, then do what we have to do in order to have what we want.
~ Jeffrey Shaw
In Hollywood, we're always looking for the next big thing that will help us feel fulfilled. As actors, we're always trying to be someone else. Things like therapy help us learn how to be ourselves. Sometimes.
~ Jen Calonita
I know you're learning how to follow in your father's footsteps, and that's good, but when was the last time you went outside the castle walls? With someone other than this staff? A good queen knows herself inside and out, and you are too inside your head. The only way you can understand the people you serve is to get to know them. Enjoy their company. Hear their stories. In the process you might figure out what you enjoy, as well, when you're not focused on your studies and your future.
~ Jen Calonita
All that mattered was reaching Anna. Anna, with her bright smile, bubbly enthusiasm, big eyes, and need to fill every moment with chatter. Anna, with her feisty nature and strong will that had saved him from the wolves... and cost him his sleigh. Anna, who was willing to risk her life to save her village and help a princess she didn't think she knew. Leave it to him to wait till now to realize he was falling for her.
~ Jen Calonita
Did you know I was capable of magic? If you did, why didn't you tell me? Were you ashamed I was born with this power? Scared? Worried about what our people would think? I'll never know. You've taken your secrets to the grave and left me alone to figure things out.
~ Jen Calonita
Your childhood may have been lonely, but your future won't be.
~ Jen Calonita
God does not change, but He uses change—to change us. He sends us on journeys that bring us to the end of ourselves. We often feel out of control, yet if we embrace His leading, we may find ourselves on the ride of our lives.
~ Jen Hatmaker
If you learn to be true in childhood, you will bypass the devastating 'undoing' so many endure later. You won't have to reinvent, reimagine, or rediscover who you are in your twenties, when you are making the most important decisions of your life (a terrible time for an identity crisis).
~ Jen Hatmaker