Quotes About Self-discovery

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.

I think they have to show their worst selves sometimes in order to be sure that even at their worst they are loved. Irene knows how frightened he is. The King didn't sound frightened. Any minute, said Eddis, he will realise-- As if her words were magic, silence fell in the tent and Eddis finished in a whisper. How frightened she is.

For my mother's entire life, her mother was less a mother than splintered bits of shrapnel she carried around in her body, sharp, rusty debris that threatened to puncture an organ if she turned a certain way.

The path of least resistance has a lot going for it. The comfort zone isn't where you lose yourself. It's where you find yourself.

If there's anything I've learned in twenty-five years, it's that the more honest you are about what you think, the more you sit in solitude with your own thoughts.

It is not always a bad thing for you to be challenged by life and to struggle; however, as you go through these times, you have to be careful not to lose yourself in the process.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

Oliver Biddle was who you became if you couldn't find anyone to love except your parents.

I'd already figured out that not understanding my failings was another one of my failings.

They were embarking on a journey into the darkness inside themselves.

It's up to you how far you go. If you don't try, you'll never know." —Merlin, The Sword in the Stone

All four of them cheered and yelled and jumped around like crazy idiots. Even Evie was grinning now. She had never been so happy to see herself in the mirror, and now that she was herself again, she found that for once in her life, nobody even cared how she looked. Not even her. It was like magic.

My aunts warned me of this many times—be wary of the sway of others, they told me. Find your own path and stay upon it. Don't allow yourself to be pulled in another direction, even if you must walk alone. "Do the most good," is their favorite saying. The most good. I like that, because it allows for, well, some of the not-so-good too. Sometimes a bit of that is necessary.

If she wasn't Mal from the Isle anymore, who was she?

I'm terrified. But for the first time in many months, I don't want to throw up. I don't want to cut myself. I just want to be. I just want to exist in the moment, the unbearable moment, because I can finally accept who I am. I can be proud of what I created.

Dancing had been how I knew I was alive. How I knew I was me. Without it, I somehow... wasn't.

For each of us, there comes a time to let go. You will know when that time has come. When you have done all that you can do, it is time to detach. Deal with your feelings. Face your fears about losing control. Gain control of yourself and your responsibilities. Free others to be who they are. In so doing, you will set yourself free. ACTIVITY Is there an event or person in your life that you are trying to control? Why? Write a few paragraphs about it.

Denial can be confusing because it resembles sleeping. We're not really aware we're doing it until we're done doing it. Forcing ourselves—or anyone else—to face the truth usually doesn't help. We won't face the facts until we are ready. Neither, it seems, will anyone else. We may admit to the truth for a moment, but we won't let ourselves know what we know until we feel safe, secure, and prepared enough to deal and cope with it.

I want to thank each person who has the courage to push through and past the set of coping behaviors we've come to label as codependency—who learn what it means to take care of themselves. "Nobody taught me how to take care of myself," a fifty-year-old woman told me recently. "I didn't have enough money to go to therapy, but I had enough to buy a book.

If you did not have that person or problem in your life, what would you be doing with your life that is different from what you are doing now? How would you be feeling and behaving? Spend a few minutes visualizing yourself living your life, feeling and behaving that way—in spite of your unsolved problem.

Map Your Own Journey Go on your own journey. Don't let others hold you back; don't hold them back. Don't judge their journey, and don't let them judge yours. All persons are free to have the experiences their souls lead them to.

Why Am I Afraid To Tell You Who I Am?

Maybe we don't need to go deeper into our codependency. We can, instead, march forward into our destinies.