Quotes About Self-discovery

... the estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists.

Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.

Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.

That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.

Throughout my life I had wandered alone, trying to find pieces of me in any place I could and when it came down to it, I was nothing but a shell of missed opportunities.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.

School teaches you what to do with the rest of your life. I already knew.

But what if Shakespeare? and Hamlet? were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

I have, my whole life, been healing the girl inside, the part of me that struggles about being a female in the world. That's why I write about the things I write about.

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

Stardom is no longer the fuel of my soul. It is the deeper aspects of life that nurture me. And I realise I am very blessed.

There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.

You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.

It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.

Look. You all do things that are beautiful and magical and... and important. But me... there's gotta be more to my life than just pots and kettles. All I'm asking you is that you give me a chance.