Quotes About Self-discovery

Something's getting in the way something's just about to break, I will try to find a place in the Diary of Jane, as I burn another page as I look the other way, I still try ti find my place in the Diary of Jane, so tell me how it should be

Sonething's getting in the way! Something's just about to break! I will try to find my place, In the Diary of Jane. As I burn another page, As I look the other way, I still try to find my place, In the Diary of Jane...

I think it can be fun to be single and date-like when you don't want a relationship. Or when you've just gotten out of a relationship, and, after get over the initial shock, your thinking, Hey, it's kind of cool being single.

Joseph Campbell wrote, "If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we'll ever do.

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.

Being ourselves means sometimes having to find the courage to stand alone, totally alone.

When we spend a lifetime trying to distance ourselves from the parts of our lives that don't fit with who we think we're supposed to be, we stand outside of our story and hustle for our worthiness by constantly performing, perfecting, pleasing, and proving. Our sense of worthiness—that critically important piece that gives us access to love and belonging—lives inside of our story.

to be the person who we long to be—we must again be vulnerable. We must take off the armor, put down the weapons, show up, and let ourselves be seen.

Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness in our lives; it's the process that teaches us the most about who we are.

You either walk into your story and own your truth, or you live outside of your story, hustling for your worthiness.

It's crazy how much energy we spend trying to avoid these hard topics when they're really the only ones that can set us free.

True belonging has no bunkers. We have to step out from behind the barricades of self-preservation and brave the wild.

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we'll ever do." I still believe in this quote from two of my previous books—maybe now more than ever. But I know that it takes more than courage to own your story. We own our stories so we don't spend our lives being defined by them or denying them. And while the journey is long and difficult at times, it is the path to living a more wholehearted life.

The willingness to show up changes us. It makes us a little braver each time.

You learn how to plant your damn feet is what you do. You bend and stretch and grow, but you commit to not moving from who you are.

who we are' is at least as important as 'what we want to achieve.

It was a long year. I lovingly refer to it on my blog as the 2007 Breakdown Spiritual Awakening. It felt like a textbook breakdown to me, but Diana called it a spiritual awakening. I think we were both right. In fact, I'm starting to question if you can have one without the other.

When we spend a lifetime trying to distance ourselves from the parts of our lives that don't fit with who we think we're supposed to be, we stand outside of our story and hustle for our worthiness by constantly performing, perfecting, pleasing, and proving.

Our unexpressed ideas, opinions, and contributions don't just go away. They are likely to fester and eat away at our worthiness. I think we should be born with a warning label similar to the ones that come on cigarette packages: Caution: If you trade in your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you really need to do, in order to have what you want. — Margaret Young

The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are.

Creating is the act of paying attention to our experiences and connecting the dots so we can learn more about ourselves and the world around us.

People may call what happens at midlife "a crisis," but it's not. It's an unraveling—a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're "supposed" to live.