Quotes About Self-discovery

Acting in its purest form is an urge from deep in the human psyche to celebrate our aliveness, to act our dreams and fantasies in a public display of our most private selves.

For me at least, genderqueer includes an aspect of questioning," Sasha explains. "The fact that I was questioning my gender meant that I was genderqueer.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

What goes on around you … compares little with what goes on inside you. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will go in this way And find my own way out

Don't you rob yourself of what you're feeling; don't rob yourself of all that you could be.

Always walk where you like your steps.

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

A journey of self-discovery is never pointless, Prince Zuko. However dim your path may seem, and however far you may wander from it...the important thing is that you learn from all of your mistakes along the way and never forget for one moment who you are, or what you are struggling to be.

The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.

Solitude is a powerful thing. People who can't use solitude always have to find some kind of bullshit to do.

We do indeed encounter new parts of ourselves by stripping away the veils of our slumber; we become aware of our essential character and are opened to capabilities beyond limits self-imposed through ignorance,

Why do stories persuade? There are several explanations: First, people deduce a story's logic by themselves. We know from research and common sense that self-discovery is much more powerful than having people talk at you.

Vipassana involves genuinely looking at who and what you are, actually seeing the real self instead of the one we imagine ourselves to be. It means facing every fear, every unsated desire, every area where we just don't know a part of ourselves, and then releasing any claim on them. It's been shown to be effective in treating depression, anxiety, panic, just about every emotional disorder there is, and it does so by removing the importance of our emotions from our lives.

Without being a cop, Sam Prichard wasn't really all that sure who he was.

Curiosity—actual curiosity—was one of the hallmarks of sentience and self-awareness

Without values, goals rarely get accomplished . . . Values are the key. When you understand them correctly, they will pull you toward to your dreams -- which is a lot wetter than having to push yourself!

Most of us spend most of our time in other peoples' worlds — working at predetermined jobs, relaxing to pre-packaged entertainment — and no matter how benign this ready-made world may be, there will always be times when something is missing or doesn't quite ring true.

Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what you know you should be, and what you fear you might be.

It's easier to paint the angel's feet to another masterwork than to discover where the angels live within yourself.

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.