Quotes About Self-discovery

We write for the same reason that we walk , talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up [...] I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias. We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

When you see me sitting quietly, Like a sack left on the shelf, Don't think I need your chattering. I'm listening to myself. Hold!

When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness." —

Si siempre intentas ser normal, nunca descubrirás lo extraordinario que puedes llegar a ser.

If your always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

If you're always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

How often must we butt to head Mind to ass flank to nuts cock to elbow hip to toe soul to shoulder confront ourselves in our past.

If you're always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be

If you're always trying to be normal, you'll never know how amazing you can be.

Se crescere è doloroso per una bambina nra del Sud, rendersi conto di essere fuori posto è la ruggine sul rasoio puntato alla gola. E' un insulto superfluo.

Baby, the fifties are everything you've been meaning to be.

I'm not supposed to be afraid of anything, you know? I'm a confident woman. I own my own business. But he...he makes me want things I've never wanted.

You know, Julie, someday a man's going to tame you.

You don't want me. How could you? You know nothing about me.

So go ahead and make your way Back from the edge of yesterday No one knows what Can't be known 'Cause when you start You're all alone But take enough steps Take enough steps Take enough steps And someday Someday you'll be home ---Heather Wells, Untitled

There are nice, funny, totally good-looking guys out there. You just have to know where to look…and apparently, where NOT to look.

We need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.

Oh, Grandmère," I said in English. "I don't want to be a princess. I just want to be me, Mia.

Lots of people go through life not having the slightest idea what names to put in the blanks on their "Who Am I?" work sheets, and they aren't bothered in the least by it.

Only me. It had always only been me. I'd just needed to believe in her. In me.

I wasn't seeing much of a long-term career in waitressing—which, for a girl who doesn't even like standing up to wash her hair, can be brutal—

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. Lao Tzu

Breakups are hard," I say. "But they get a little bit easier every day, until one day you meet someone who makes you forget all about that other person, and you realize that breakup was the best thing that ever happened to you.