Quotes About Self-discovery

Perhaps the year and a half spent trying to make sense of all this has finally drained me Maybe, just maybe, I always know I deserved better, but was too afraid to accept it

I am trying to find myself in all of the chaos, find something that I can call me inside the screams and inside the 'you shoulds' and 'you have to bes.

When I try to save other people am I trying to save myself? Am I covering up for my lack of strength by putting people back together?

I have been telling myself that these feelings are new, but they aren't, I just didn't connect them before

I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.

No laws: to break, or to follow. Do anything you want. Which does funny things to you. Very quickly, surprisingly quickly, you become-" [...] "exactly who you are.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

I realized with alarm that I hadn't learned how to save anyone at all, not Dr. Sanders or Lazarus or Jimmy or Saul or Anna O., and that what I was thrilled about was learning how to save myself.

This might have been the only thing that could have awakened you. Your whole life has been a growing from the outside, mastering the challenges that others have set for you. Now, finally, you might just be growing from inside yourself.

There is a pivotal moment in life when you realize who you are and the world around you is no longer what it seems. Your reality has changed forever....

True joy comes from operating with Inner-directedness and recognizing who you are.

I like to play different versions of myself, but I think that's kind of what everyone ultimately really does. There are a few people who are real chameleons and can sink into something and truly disappear ... but that is really not what I was meant to do.

He calls me Josephine. He says I'm an angel, a saint, his good lucky star. I know I'm no angel, but in truth I have begun to like this Josephine he sees. She is intelligent; she amuses; she is pleasing. She is grace and charm and heart. Unlike Rose; scared, haunted and needy. Unlike Rose with her sad life.

For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves

Just as we don't move without first sorting through what we've gathered through the years, throwing away what is broken and can't be fixed, and what no longer fits, so too, should we do the same with what we've mentally gathered, before we move on. So let us do our sorting, throwing away regrets and old hurts, and taking for our journey only the treasures worth keeping: The lessons, the love, the best of what we've lived.

But when your life is broken, you'll let that misery roll by for years, and ignore the side of you that isn't finished.

Finding peace and happiness is a journey you need to take, there is no quick fix

As my friend, if you declare it, I will write it down because when you are at your lowest, this will be a roadmap to finding yourself again.

That little girl you doubted is now fierce, unstoppable and unapologetically me.

The person I am today, is not a replica of the person I was, because this edition is limitless.

Je leven is niet iets wat je achter je kunt laten of waar je voor weg kunt lopen. Want je leven, dat ben je zelf. Mensen... dat is een heel ander verhaal. Voor mensen kun je weglopen.

Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, overly educated and excessively rational, knowing right from wrong and fancy from fact, woke in a nest of marten and fox pelts to the sight of an eagle circling overhead, and saw at once that it could not be far to Paradise.