Quotes About Self-discovery

At the core of every formerly mistreated adult —even high achievers—is a little child who feels powerless and afraid.

You have told the truth about your life to yourself and your parents, and the fear that kept you trapped in your old role with them can no longer control you.

So many people fail to realise that the greatest journey one can ever take is the journey to the very centre of one's being.

I think we learn the truth about ourselves by telling it to someone else.

Well, at least I can spare myself the ordeal of a whole battery of personality tests. My personality is poor; that much is clear.

This is bullshit. You think I care what other people think? What does age have to do with it? Why can't you be that girl? As for what I want to do with my life, why can't I figure that out with you?

What they teach in school isn't enough," Reggie said. "Birth control is important but what about the rest of it?" "The rest?" Dellina asked before she could stop herself. "You mean—" "Pleasure." Lark smiled at her husband. "Remember when I taught the girls to masturbate?" He nodded. "It was a beautiful time." Sam flinched.

Part of getting better was learning how to let go. It had taken her a while but she'd finally figured out that when she stopped trying to control the world, she had a whole lot less anxiety.

Six months of therapy three years ago had left her more confused than ever.

I thought I loved him, nut know I am questioning that. Love is supposed to be a positive thing. With him, my world got smaller, not bigger. I made so many bad choices.

I'm not sure I'm the marrying kind. I don't even know if I want kids. I'm still at the keeping-a-plant alive stage of my life. Next, I'll consider getting a pet.

Kurz hatte sie darüber nachgedacht, in eine größere Stadt zu ziehen, dann aber erkannt, dass sie im Grunde ihres Herzens ein Kleinstadtmädchen war.

An hour. Not nearly enough time to lose five pounds, have a makeover and become glamorous and sophisticated. Why, oh, why hadn't she learned French? Or aikido? Anything that would make her interesting for Jonny Blaze? She briefly wondered if aikido was the martial arts training or the dog breed, then sighed. Too late to worry about that now. As it was, she was going to be stuck being herself.

was easy to give someone else advice, but much harder to know what to do yourself.

When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.

No one completes us.  No one is our missing piece, our other half.  We complete ourselves or fail to.   No one else could be successful in that role because each of us is utterly unique.  There isn't another "you" anywhere on this planet.  If you somehow feel incomplete, the answers aren't out there somewhere.  The answers are in the room.  You have them.  

I am only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.

I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.

25/12/48 É muito provável que ao lembrar-me disso, um dia, eu ache muita graça. Assim como houve um tempo em que eu era religiosa de um modo neurótico e aterrorizado e achava que um dia seria católica, agora acho que tenho tendências lésbicas (com que relutância escrevo isto) –

an expression of human consciousness, consciousness seeking to know itself.

In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.

put herself back together again and again. She would drink the forest liquids and drench herself in possibility.

Before this I had always held back, had never lived freely, not with Pietro, not even with Palmira, but here, where nothing was known, I did not fear judgment, and because Father and I shared the same sensibilities, all the rigidness of my living melted and I felt myself coming into myself. If it was genuine, if it would last, it was a wonderful feeling.