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Quotes About Self-discovery

I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn't dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears.
~ Geri Halliwell
A lot of people talk about the trail healing them, but I feel like, the first time, it humbled me, which I probably needed. It was a completely new way to experience the world and my body.
~ Jennifer Pharr Davis
I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time.
~ Lana Del Rey
It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.
~ Laura Marling
As time passes, I feel more and more a sense of acting being a fundamental part of who I am.
~ Michael C. Hall
But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.
~ Pema Chodron
Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.
~ Robert Jordan
Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.
~ William S. Burroughs
So wake me up when it's all over When I'm wiser and I'm older All this time I was finding myself And I didn't know I was lost
~ Aloe Blacc
There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.
~ Cindy Gallop
I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
In order to change unwanted habits and actions, it is important to take the time to get to know yourself.
~ Darren Johnson
Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.
~ Daryl Hall
Time with yourself, with your family, and with your God may prove to be the ultimate saving.
~ Doris Janzen Longacre
I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time.
~ Jim Carrey
When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.
~ Sheridan Smith
Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves.
~ Tamar Jacoby
Good" and "kender" being two words that were rarely, if ever, linked, Tasslehoff spent the time sitting at the table, thinking about what a good kender might be and wondering if he was one himself. He assumed he probably was, since he was a hero and all that.
~ Margaret Weis
Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you. Sometimes it hurts, but when you are Real you don't mind being hurt. It doesn't happen all at once. You become. Once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. Once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.
~ Margery Williams Bianco
Because he doesn't know he carries within him a supreme elegance, I say it for him.
~ Marguerite Duras
Je pense souvent à cette image que je suis seule à voir encore et dont je n'ai jamais parlé. Elle est toujours là dans le même silence,émerveillante. C'est entre toutes celle qui me plaît de moi-même, celle où je me reconnais, où je m'enchante.
~ Marguerite Duras
Et c'était là la chose importante: il fallait avant tout se libérer de la mère qui ne pouvait pas comprendre que dans la vie, on pouvait gagner sa liberté, sa dignité, avec des armes différentes de celles qu'elle avait crues bonnes.
~ Marguerite Duras
Il difficile non è raggiungere qualcosa, è liberarsi dalla condizione in cui si è.
~ Marguerite Duras
But what is there about me I am so completely unaware of and which she summons me to know?
~ Marguerite Duras