Quotes About Self-discovery

Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

It is your life and it is worth risking everything to make it yours.

Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy.

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.

I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late.

I think creative blocks come from people's life journeys. If you don't know who you are or what you're about or what you believe in it's really pretty impossible to be creative.

Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

I wouldn't change a thing in my life, even if I could. What you go through makes you who you are and that's fine.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.

Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life. I walked away.

I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.

Confused by the big city blues, he didn't know who's life he's leading. Put yourself behind the wheel, see if you can get that feel.

Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.

All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.

Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

No matter how long you practiceyou sense there will always be something to learn,something more to embrace about yourself & life.

The more we enter our own gifts, the more we feel that sense of proportion. In that sense, I think our life lies in the fulfillment of those potentialities, whatever they may be.

Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's just been a really great thing in my life.