Quotes About Self-discovery

Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.

If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.

True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

If they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable.

A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to keep benefiting from the strength it has awakened.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

My great strength is knowing who I am and where I come from - my island.

You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you're at your weakest.

Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction.

As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light.

Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

You find your strengths and play them up.

I honor every woman who has strength enough to step out of the beaten path when she feels that her walk lies in another.

A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.

You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

...I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered my real and appropriate strengths.

You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

You've got to figure out what it is you love - who you really are - and have the courage to do that.

Francesca Lia Block, Pink Smog

I write to give myself strength.