Quotes About Self-discovery

Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces." [ Blueprint for a Breakthrough (2013)]

and if you can't see anything beautiful about yourself get a better mirror look a little closer stare a little longer because there's something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit you built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself you signed it "they were wrong

And if you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. Look a little closer. Stare a little longer. Because there's something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit.

To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

It's not magic. I remember because I make comparisons. Not in terms of better or worse, just different. And not all of these memories are great, but they're mine. Which lends way to believe, that none of our lives are put together on an assembly line. We're not pre-packaged with memories or programmed with stories. We have to make our own.

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life...go make your happily-ever-after happen.

I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

She thought now it was time to be tested, to make decisions and find her own roads, to stop falling where she was told to fall and to stand only when allowed to stand.

She was not who she'd thought she was. No one was.

No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

But man, can she snore," Cedar smiled wistfully, "Do you think when I become a real girl I'll be able to snore, too?

she also felt a yearning like the beginnings of a yawn arching in her chest to have that separation and to become, finally, who she would be.

So here it is. Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

Okay, okay, I can do this, Jane said to herself. Of course I can do this. I should be used to making a fool out of myself by now. This will be the last big one. Just three weeks and then I can leave this part of myself behind and get on with my life. And maybe it'll be fun. It might even be fun.

I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please.

Tonya had wanted to look at her former residence for perspective. She had wanted to look at where she had come from. It made her appreciate everything that she had gone through thus far.

I am five, I will never understand why we are stranded in our selves but in this moment I know my own story is understanding our singleness that I am destined to move my body and time into the body-time the story of Others.

You erred in hiding yourself from yourself," Lute said sternly. "That is never wise. Misdirecting an enemy is merely self-defense.

I did not know I hated—I did not know there was meanness in me, and permanent dysforgiveness and scorn.

Now I come to look at love in a new way, now that I know I'm not standing in its light.