Quotes About Self-discovery

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

I also discovered that many frantically busy full-time housewives were amazed to find that they could polish off in one hour the housework that used to take them six, or was still undone at dinner time, as soon as they started studying, or working, or had some other serious interest outside the home.

It is both an irony and an indictment of the feminine mystique that it often forced the unhappy ones, the ugly ducklings, to find themselves, while girls who fitted the image became adjusted 'happy' housewives and have never found out who they are.

A woman who is herself only a sexual object, lives finally in a world of objects, unable to touch in others the individual identity she lacks herself.

Henry's girl! She smiled. No, she was not Henry's girl. She was Sarah. And that was sufficient. And with such a late start it would be some time before she got to know herself. Half in a dream now, she wondered if at the end of that time she would need someone else and who it would be.

Beverly Barton

The process of finding oneself in the face of invisibility, silence, and stereotypes is not an easy one.

Even if all I did was stay away... it's still the best thing I ever did in my life.

In addition to reaching out for help, you will also need to reach within yourself. Your biggest ally will be your emotions. Through them, you will learn more about what really happened to you, how the abuse affected you, and what you need to do in order to heal. Your emotions will enable you to reclaim the self you long ago hid away.

La vostra, cari amici, non è cronaca. E' pornografia dei sentimenti. E a noi non piace fare lo spogliarello della nostra anima davanti a tutti.

Run a finger along a dusty shelf, and you are in large part clearing a path through fragments of your former self.

i was'nt always black. there was this freckel that just grew and grew...

You need to be who you are, not try to emulate somebody else.

True North is the internal compass that guides you successfully through life.

Can you recall a time when you felt most intensely alive and could say with confidence, " This is the real me "?

Your anger and emotional outbursts usually result when someone penetrates to the core of what you do not like about yourself or still cannot accept.

The question isn't, "What do I want to get done in the next thirty days?" but, "Who do I want to become in this next season of my life?" Once we answer that key question, calendars and schedules are terrific tools for helping us accomplish our life goals, both interpersonal and practical. Many

For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled. Sooner or later, we are all asked to compromise ourselves and the things we care about. We define ourselves by our actions. With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.

In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.

One must know oneself. Even if that does not help in finding truth, at least it helps in running one's life, and nothing is more proper.

Second, the leaders had overcome the enormous pressures on successful companies to take paths they had not chosen and did not necessarily want to follow. The people in charge had remained in control, or had regained control, by doing a lot of soul searching, rejecting a lot of well-intentioned advice, charting their own course, and building the kind of business they wanted to live in, rather than accommodating themselves to a business shaped by outside forces.