Quotes About Self-discovery

So it had to stop. Committing to Nick, feeling safe with Nick, being happy with Nick, made me realize that there was a Real Amy in there, and she was so much better, more interesting and complicated and challenging, than Cool Amy. Nick wanted Cool Amy anyway. Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that's how the hating first began. I've thought about this a lot, and that's where it started, I think.

Creo que algunas mujeres no están hechas para ser madres, simplemente. Y algunas no están hechas para ser hijas

But in a way, Libby, this presents you with a really interesting new phase of your life. I mean, what do you want to be when you grow up?" I could tell this was supposed to be charming, but it brought a burst of rage up in me. I didn't want to be anything, that was the fucking point.

I was probably happier for those few years--pretending to be someone else--than I ever have been before or after. I can't decide what that means.

You're always the person you were when you were born, she says impatiently. You just keep finding new ways to express it.

It's like living your whole life without ever looking in a mirror, Amy thought, and suddenly you see your reflection, and you're a monster.

So who are you?" Jiming asked. "Other than a boy who brings wine to toads at night.

When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and all I know is that in spite of her mistakes and her unreliability, she was better than most. It's just as well that one of us should believe in her: she never did in herself.

Because while the world is filled with people who just need to let their demon go, there is another group who need to find themselves one.

What better mirror is there than the face of an old friend? Only those we love have the power to show us our true selves.

And she supposed—the furrowed face would bloom again—that it was a very common human predicament. To be at a loss, not to know what to do with yourself.

How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of?

People look at us and see the poor and the mad, but they're looking at us through the bars of their cages. There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

Enjoy yourself out there... in the asylum.

It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you'll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go.

He's that guy that's so tired from work, so stressed about the project he's working on. He's just been through an awful breakup and it's really hitting him hard. His parents' divorce has scarred him and he has trust issues. Right now he has to focus on his career. He can't get involved with anyone until he knows what his life is about. He

The last few years had taught her that, bizarrely, there might be more to life than money, heists, and adrenaline. A crazy idea, no kidding, and she wasn't entirely convinced yet, but maybe, just maybe, she could be something more than a thief?

Carl Jung's admonition: If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, it will destroy you.

So he was FN-2187, well on his way to becoming the ideal First Order stormtrooper. That was what everyone thought, at least. Except FN-2187 himself.

The problem had to be with him, FN-2187 thought. That was the only explanation. It was what everyone had been saying all along, after all. He was different. Maybe he was so different he was broken. So he would work to fix it, to be a real stormtrooper, to be one of them. That was, he thought, what he wanted most of all. Not to be alone.

If you have to be hit over the head to learn something about yourself, you'll be someone who thinks that people only learn if you hit them over the head.

What interests me," she took up finally, and there was now no touch of her characteristic satire, "is a life in which I am engaged in discovering what interests me. Not just now, as a young woman, but when I am a wife, and when I have children, and beyond. A life of imagination, and experience, and engagement, and commitment to something beyond myself.

But I feel myself marooned on the island of my self.

The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.