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Quotes About Self-discovery

As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.
~ David Nicholls
I will not die an unlived life.
~ Dawna Markova
I'd been a terrific student. I hadn't wasted a moment of my time in school, and I knew plenty about healing the troubled mind. But no one had taught me a thing about healing the soul
~ Diane Chamberlain
We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique voice and then learn to heed it and we will then have the life experience we deserve.
~ Dirk Benedict
I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.
~ Donna Tartt
Highly sensitive people are often afraid to speak up, until life pushes them to do so.
~ Doreen Virtue
I claimed myself and remade my life.
~ Dorothy Allison
There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
~ E. M. Forster
In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.
~ Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.. It is finding the essence of who you are.
~ Eckhart Tolle
You can just say the word "hair" to a woman, and she tells you the story of her life.
~ Elizabeth Benedict
For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
~ Erica Jong
I can be capable of anything if I allow myself to be. I really realized what an obstacle I was being in my own life.
~ Erin Willett
Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us in destructive ways of living might be the most life-serving thing we can do.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life.
~ Fred Rogers
A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.
~ Frederick Lenz
Each time you meditate you have the possibility of completely changing your life in one meditation. If you meditate with your whole heart and your whole soul, you will become light itself.
~ Frederick Lenz
Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us.
~ Frederick Lenz
It is best to study from a teacher of ANY subject, as long as you focus on the teachings and NOT on the teacher. All of the real important answers to life's questions lie within your own mind.
~ Frederick Lenz
I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.
~ Melina Marchetta
I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.
~ Melina Marchetta
Ive been more single than not in my short life.
~ Michael Kiwanuka