Quotes About Self-discovery

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

It's ironic that we rush through being "single" as if it's some disease or malady to get rid of or overcome. The truth is, most likely, one day you will meet someone and it will be gone. And once it's gone, it's really gone! Why does no one tell us how important it is to enjoy being single and being by yourself? That time is defining and amazing and nothing to "cure". It is being alone that will actually set you up the best for being with someone else.

And in this new place in my life- I was sleeping alone for over a year, finding the middle of the bed, and really working on myself- I started to become worried about meeting someone because I was really feeling different than I had ever felt in my life. So strong, and I didn't want anyone to take that away. Someone would have to be the human equivalent of addition and not subtraction. Period.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

I don't want to be stinky poo-poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

It's ironic that we rush through being "single" as if it's some disease or malady to get rid of or overcome. The truth is, most likely, one day you will meet someone and it will be gone. And once it's gone, it's really gone! Why does no one tell us how important it is to enjoy being single and being by yourself? That time is defining and amazing and nothing to "sure". It is being alone that will actually set you up the best for being with someone else.

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

Living your best life is your most important journey in life.

Only one thing matters: live a good, happy life. Do your heart's bidding, even when it leads you on paths that timid souls would avoid. Even when life is a torment, don't let it harden you.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with yourself and ask of yourself how you can profit by it.

Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.

People don't come to therapy for exclamation; they come for experience.

Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.

It's about getting to a point in your life where you're ready to let go and move on and become the better version of yourself.

You become yourself, every single day of your life, through your choices and how you think.

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

A person's life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It's your road.

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.