Quotes About Self-discovery

Being around people didn't make me uneasy, I just preferred to be alone most of the time.

Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

Once I was a stupid girl; now I am an angry woman.

Alice says she can't explain herself because she's not herself, she knows who she was this morning but she changed several times since then.

One never imagined that as the decades went by, one might drift into an unbounded country. It struck Lib now how alone in the world she was.

What's wrong with you, girl, that you would make yourself over again?

Nowadays 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.

I still believe that you truly find yourself not in travel, but in other human souls.

Since I'm a cat who doesn't know what I am, I wear track pants with old-skool Nikes but Gina Lollobrigida skintight sweaters. I am caught between childhood and va-va-voom.

Cosmo sank into a near trancelike state. The events of the past few days bounced around his head like blobs of oil in a lava lamp. Who was he now? Cosmo Hill fugitive no-sponsor, or Cosmo Hill Supernaturalist? Who was Cosmo Hill anyhow? A product of Clarissa Frayne, with no personality to speak of. Fourteen years old and he had never kissed a girl.

If you win the adoration of others by pretending to be someone you're not, you may gain celebrity or high office—but you will lose out on the fulfillment of a life best-suited to your attributes and abilities.

Put up with being laughed at on occasion; look around you, and give yourself a good shaking to find out who you really are.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths...Dig deeply. You possess strengths you might not realize you have. Find the right one. Use it.

why act the part of a Jew when you're Greek? [ 20] Don't you know why it is that a person is called a Jew, Syrian, or Egyptian? And when we see someone hesitating between two creeds, we're accustomed to say, 'He is no Jew, but is merely acting the part.' But when he assumes the frame of mind of one who has been baptized * and has made his choice, then he really is a Jew, and is called by that name.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.

The ideal potential convert is the individual who stands alone, who has no collective body he can blend with and lose himself in and so mask the pettiness, meaninglessness and shabbiness of his individual existence.

Sometimes you have to let people change and grow on their own, you have to back off and hope it turns out for the best.

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

She lives as if she is constantly on the brink of some great fulfillment. As if she were waiting for Prince Charming to take her away from all this. All what? The solitude of living inside her own soul? The certainty of being herself instead of half of something else?

You're afraid he'll leave you and you'll fall apart. You don't know that you can get along without him and you're afraid to find out because then your whole potty theory will come tumbling down. You'll have to stop thinking of yourself as weak and dependent and you hate that.

So there were people who got up at noon, pared their toenails, and sat naked in hotel rooms without regarding each day as an apocalypse. Amazing! If someone had burst into my room and found me naked and paring my nails, I would have died of shock. Or would I? Maybe I was stronger than I thought.