Quotes About Self-discovery

Our purpose in life is not to be good, to please God, to be beautiful, to be popular, or to be successful. Our purpose, rather, is to remove the masks and the façades that block the flow of this divine intelligence, [our Inner Being, the Source within us] and to express this greater mind through us.

to believe in yourself . . . to be healed . . . to be free . . . to be moved by the spirit? . . .

You're going to have to make the transition from being somebody to being no body—which means you have to take your attention off your body, your pain, and your hunger. You're going to have to go from being someone to being no one (taking your attention off your identity as a partner, a parent, and an employee).

When we sit for long enough not doing anything, we begin to feel something. That something is who we really are.

I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death.

She was down the street and around the corner when she realized she hadn't put anything on besides the jacket and her boots. She was tramping around greater Denver at two in the morning in her faded pink panties. At least she had remembered the whiskey.

think I hit my head on something and knocked my shadow off. Are you going to stick it back on, or did it get away?

At the end, I get to be the person I always wanted to be," she thought.

If Ig hated Merrin now, it was only because he had discovered she was a real person, with failings and needs and desire to live in the world, not in Ig's daydreams. That she loved him enough to let him go, and he had to be willing to do the same, that if you loved someone, you could set them free, and - fuck, that was a Sting song.

The road will make me better. The road always does.

Angie has never had sticking power. She dropped out of high school; she walked out of the GED exam. Her longest relationship, prior to falling for Andy, was seven months. But then they'd met (no epic tale there—the game was on at a hometown bar), and something in her character was spontaneously altered.

I've been thinking a lot and it's not that anyone did anything wrong. We just didn't know what we wanted. We weren't the people we were supposed to be yet

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

Human beings are like the screwed-up children of alcoholic parents in that way, picking up the pieces afterward and trying to make up reasons why.

What's your real name?" I asked. "Zusane," she said. "Zusane Zaksauskas. But now I am Gobija, goddess of fire.

It takes something special to realize that the preconceived choices and beliefs that you've always had aren't necessarily the best ones for you. It's not easy.

I d-duh-don't know wh-why you even b-buh -bother b-buh-because in s-six y-yuh-years y-you're g-guh-going to be j-juh-just l-like—""Don't say that."Something inside me went cold. "I'm never going to be like him.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. —Carl Jung

I had never before seen somebody I admired understand what was expected of him, choose to act otherwise, and be happier for it. For the first time in my life I realized that it was possible to reinvent oneself.

always has to be you. Next time say

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

If you don't know who you are, a child of the Most High God, then you'll spend your energy trying to get other people to validate you. But when you're secure in who God made you to be, you won't live trying to impress people and getting your value out of what they think.

If you will get free from what everyone else thinks and start being who you were created to be, you will rise to a new level.

People will try to squeeze you into what they're used to, into what they think. Take advice, listen to counsel, but you may have to disappoint a few people to reach your destiny.