Quotes About Self-discovery

You've gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you're studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.

You love your music." "I did when I was trying to shut everything out. Now I'm trying to let everything in.

When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?

What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.

No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for.

He thought: I'm a guy who wears boots like this. It was the first thing he knew about himself.

I see now that the place I've been yearning for is my own imagination.

Knowing all of this makes us one step closer to being real, but not completely. When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know it's happened?

I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us.

In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for.

I used to stand at the lectern in my coat and tie, waving my glasses around, urging students to find the courage to become themselves. Then I'd go back to the office and lock the door and put my head down on the desk.

We aren't here on earth in order to bend over backwards to resemble everyone else. We're here to be ourselves, in all our gnarly brilliance.

But there were times when I remembered my younger self the way you'd remember a dear friend you'd lost, for reasons you no longer quite understood.

Since then, the awareness that I was in the wrong body, living the wrong life, was never out of my conscious mind—never, although my understanding of what it meant to be a boy, or a girl, was something that changed over time.

As it turns out, we're all still learning to be men, or women, all still learning to be ourselves. pg 197

I really did "choose" to be Jim every single day, but that once I put my sword down I haven't chosen Jenny at all; I simply wake up and here I am.

How does one get one self back ? How can one release and let go when the pain is so intense you feel as though you are drowning in your own breath.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself. —Galileo Galilei

I think what you wear on Halloween is important. It says something about you--who you are and what you want to be. There's got to be a reason so many girls go around dressed as princesses and witches.

How am I chang'd! Alas, how am I grown A frightful spectre to myself unknown! For

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us . . . [But] as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people the permission to do the same.

Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are.

Sometimes it's the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself, and the more you know yourself, the less you are willing to give away.