Quotes About Self-discovery

What matters is what we write: that is what we are, not some puppet made up by those who talk and enclose us in a prison so different from our dreams.

You cannot race somebody else's race. The prize will never be yours if you're running in the wrong lane.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.

Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always wanted to be.

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

I don't want to always be 'the best I can be.' I just want to be me.

Every time I break out of what is expected of me and do what feels right, I feel stronger.

And the days went by, and I forgot I was a fallen acomat, and began to feel the beauty of my own two woman's legs again, and started to walk.

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Or perhaps, the thought seized her, perhaps instead of his smile it was she who had changed. She who, in the long, wind-creaked silence, had emerged from the increment of codes and loyalties to her real, unfettered self. She who now felt his air of appraisal as nothing more than an understanding of the unfulfilled woman that until this moment had lain within her brooding and unadmitted, reproved out of consciousness by the insistence of an outgrown, routine fidelity.

Being caught up in the middle could be a compelling force for you to find your own identity.

Silence gives you an opportunity to listen to your heart.' Sm

YOU MIGHT NEED To divert a little but don't lose your path, stay true to yourself. SM

I came to see I was not just alone; I was free. Free of him. Free to be. So many women's lives are hindered, hampered, and ruined by husbands who will not leave long after they have ceased to be husbands or fathers. Dead wearing a hat, these men actively and energetically visit untold woe on those they once had once. I was not thus afflicted I saw.

I came to see I was not just alone; I was free. Free of him. Free to be. So many women's lives are hindered, hampered, and ruined by husbands who will not leave long after they have ceased to be husbands or fathers. Dead wearing a hat, these men actively and energetically visit untold woe on those they once had loved. I was not thus afflicted I saw.

Never seek what you are not, but nurture what you are.

We accomplish nothing good in life, before we find out who we are.

Hidden there—hidden even from himself—had lain inert for months a mighty passion such as only a great heart

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

I'm called Little Buttercup—dear little Buttercup, Though I could never tell why.

It has taken me a very long time, a very long time to give myself permission to fly and breathe fire.

When you're young, I think it's harder to know what you want, how much of others you're willing to take in. When I was living in Paris, I tried on ideas about myself like dresses. I was always reinventing who I was.