Quotes About Self-discovery

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

It's been a long road. A humble Dearborn beginning. Secretary mom, dad teaching handicapped children. Working for what they had. Eventually, I moved to L.A. but, not good for me, I felt rejected. So I stopped acting and, needing to feel good inside, became a chef.

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

In college, I would do my teammate's hair and their makeup sometimes. I did a friend's makeup at the 2008 Olympics, and she said, 'Have you ever considered taking classes?' For some reason, it had never crossed my mind.

When you are 28, 29 years old... you are aware that this is going to be your last big contract of your career. You have to make up your mind: What is it that I want? Do I want to find something new, a new culture, a new league, a new language, new teammates, a new city? And what is it that I need to be happy? What is it that I need to perform?

In my chest, my own heart was breaking. On my cheek, the lily reminded me who I was.

To look at those (few) books in the dawning recognition that what they furnish is not a room, but a self.

Some irony. The girl who couldn't face her own bullshit . . . suddenly forcing everyone else to.

My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York. Am I a troubled kid? Yeah. You could say that.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

Regardless of your journey, you can put a little pilgrim in your travels and find your own personal jubilation.

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame. How could I count my blessings when I didn't know their names?

I have buried my fears, abandoned self-consciousness, and allowed myself to slide into sensation. I like the person I have become.

I have learned that silence is a way of hearing the voices within and of exploring unexpressed and nascent thoughts and feelings.

Loyalty to her adoptive parents warred with her need for the truth about herself. How could she know where to go in life if she didn't know where she'd come from?

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

Rita Williams-Garcia

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

I realised something. Since leaving for Nymanteles, since coming clean with my friends, being honest with them, I'd been nobody but me. No pretence. No lies. I had been me. I had found me.

When you want to start living, what do you do? How do you start? Where do you go? Who do you need to blow?

I'm much better at bringing out the best in others than in myself. That's just the kind of person I am. I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox.