Quotes About Self-discovery

Winter is a time for going inward. For tending to the unseen.

Spend time in silence. Take time to get to know yourself and your genius in stillness.

Meditation helped me to access the same thing my writing did: my intelligence and my instincts beyond the turmoil that inhabited the forefront of my mind.

Engage in a loving archaeological dig back to yourself. Let all that is not yours within you fall away until only your real nature remains.

Life is about drawing and redrawing who we are and how we behave without shame or judgment.

For me, success was finding the courage to be true to myself, and holding on to a sense of humor along the way while refining my craft. Sean

Be pretty, but not threateningly pretty. Be a go-getter but don't threaten anyone or be a bitch. Caught in this web of contradictions, we have to be everything for everyone and we lose the ability to explore who we really are.

At school, at home, in bars, I was an emotional contortionist, alternating between awkward self-aggrandizing and trying to win favor so as to fit in. When I wrote, I let myself be dead honest, flaws and all. But I was myself, I felt real. I went inside myself when a pen was in my hand and enjoyed that space in there.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

People love to believe they're so much better than they are. People who have never been tested, they're so quick to judge. What do they really know about themselves? All I'm saying is this: unless you've been there, found yourself with nothing, nothing but your own talent, you can't tell me you wouldn't do it the same way, too.

Above all I needed to be made to think about what it meant that I was a woman, instead of acting unreflectingly as though I were a man, bound to live out the script of a man's life.

allowed themselves to reinhabit themselves

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

I've always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific." – Chloe Traeger

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

Forget about what goblins would do. Forget about what an adventurer would do. I need to figure out what Jig should do.

Solitude is dangerous. It's very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realise how peaceful and calm it is. It's like you don't want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy." – Jim Carrey

He was about to find out that when you open a door with a psychiatrist's name on it, you'd better be prepared to witness exactly how fucked up your life has become.

We only meet the God within our true selves through suffering. We seek the wilderness because in this solitude we can hear ourselves more clearly.

I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.

Los libros, las ideas y los consejos prudentes son importantes, pero el lugar en el que fundamentalmente encontramos a Dios es en lo que nosotros mismos experimentamos.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.