Quotes About Self-discovery

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

What does that matter when he makes me happy?" There was an adjustment her mother made then, a slight giving in, a relaxing of her shoulders, as if she wondered for just a moment what that kind of freedom might feel like.

I've spent fifty years...without a man in my bed. Think...of all the orgasms I missed.

He has lived cloaked so long, he did not know how to reveal his heart.

What will it be like to be one instead of half of two?

Education is great … but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I am.

But the more I focused on my interests, the more it brought out things I liked about myself

Who has not sat, afraid, before his own heart's curtain?

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

The only journey is the one within.

If you don't go within you go without.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own. I have also been called one thing and then another while no one really wished to hear what I called myself. So after years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled. I am an invisible man.

I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

I put on several different outfits. The advantage of not knowing who you are is you can attempt to be all things to all men … or women. My mother saw me always glancing in every mirror, every window; in the gleaming blades of knives. She said, "Jill is vain." She did not know I was looking to see who would be there this time.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.

The key to the period appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself…. The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.