Quotes About Self-discovery

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside -- walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It's the saddest thing I know.

I can grow. I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and that makes it just right.

I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world. They tiny elf-dancer became a wooden doll whose strings were jerked by people not paying attention. I spun out of control. Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.

Look in a mirror and find a ghost. Hear every heartbeat scream that everysinglething is wrong with you. Why? is the wrong question. Ask Why not?

Yesterday's dirt and mistakes have moved through me. I am shiny and pink inside, clean. Empty is good. Empty is strong.

Guidando verso casa sono quasi una ragazza vera.

Auntie Laurie says follow your nightmares instead cuz when you figure out what's eating you alive you can slay it

Some people grow up knowing what they want to do; they color inside the lines, study at the right school, check off the boxes, and in the end they are handed the grown-up life they've dreamed of. That's mostly bullshit, for the record. Trying to figure out what you want to do, who you want to be, is messy as hell; the best anyone can hope for is to figure out the next step.

Laurie Halse Anderson

The book was We Walk Alone by Ann Aldrich.

If one falls in love with a mask when one is masked oneself… which of you will first have the courage to raise it?

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will - whatever we may think. They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outwards in space, but inwards as well. Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection....

He inhabits now that part of himself Which lay formerly desolate and uncolonised. - Mark of Patmos

Other countries may offer you discoveries in manners or lore or landscape; Greece offers you something harder—the discovery of yourself.

It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.

I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.

Just because you fall down doesnt mean your hurt in the process yet mabey you found your lost ear ring

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

None but a woman can teach the science of herself.