Quotes About Self-discovery

I know what the teaching is, but to realize the teaching in a life experience, the sh*t really is an opportunity to find out who we truly are. To really learn and to awaken to our potential.

Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course of my life.

Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek.

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.

The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

When you are in high school, you don't give much thought to what you can't do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.

I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

I tell you this: The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.

I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.

I write to save someone's life, probably my own

I think the older you get, the more you know about life, and the more you learn about yourself and you become comfortable in your own skin. So the older I'm getting, the more fun I'm having.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.