Quotes About Self-discovery

I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great.

Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

Solitude is not a way of running away from life ... from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we sort them out, air them, get over them, and go on without the burden of yesterday.

I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.

I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.

If you're not satisfied with your life, it's time to invent a new one.

Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.

Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.

When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.

If better were within, better would come out.

When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.

From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.

Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.

[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.