Quotes About Self-discovery

Maybe I am everything I knew that I would never be. I looked back at Jay and smiled.

Don't let the lies that darken our world keep you from living within your truth.

I kept you so well, buried beneath the darkest shame and stilled with filthy lies. Perhaps I should have dug deeper.

I danced with my shadows until they became part of my light.

All due respect to Romeo and Juliet, but I don't think love is sacrifice at all. Real love is when you let another person make you better. You don't lose yourself in love—you find yourself there.

Today is the day I stand tall, strong, and mighty to tell the world who I am.

Sometimes you have to be alone to truly know your worth.

My alone doesn't always feel good, but I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude

Sometime I wonder why I walk alone on this cold, windy road. Maybe I have no one to love or no one love me at all?

The problem with living without the person you can't live without is eventually realizing you can live without them.

Sometimes, it will never make sense until you find the right path that makes sense to you and no one else.

I know who I want to be and I want you by my side as I become that person.

When we reach our highest potential, we will find our highest love.

I need to work on me.The mewithout you.

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

In some ways, it's easier to recognize your power when you're calm and untroubled than when you're distressed. Search out your talent in quiet moments. Don't push too hard. You've done it once. You can do it again.

You're trying to figure out who you are. I see it. And you'll make it. But not if you give up." Seth heaved a sigh. "I might want to give up, but I won't. I worry, though: what if everything I do just causes more harm?" "Everyone causes harm," Calvin said. "Sometimes we hurt others, and sometimes we hurt ourselves. If you've caused a problem, you learn and do better. You become smarter for next time. And you undo what harm you can.

In the end, it was one or the other—be myself, or please my father. I chose me. And loyalty to my real friends.

Are you? I said. Gay, I mean? - I hoped he wasn't offended by my asking, but after everything that had happened, I really wanted to know. No, he said. I thought I was for about a w-w-week once. But now I know I'm not. If there was ever an answer that sounded like the truth, that was it.

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

I've started drinking my own urine. I laugh spontaneously at nothing. Sometimes I sleep under my futon. I'm flossing my teeth constantly until my gums are aching and my mouth tastes like blood.

You just said your name was Pat." "No. I was wrong," I say sternly, staring directly at him. "I was wrong about my name being Pat. My name is Marcus.

To everyone, Jesus issues an invitation to abandon the story they will lose themselves in, and instead, to enter the story they will find themselves in.

When I need somebeast to tell me m'name I'll jolly well ask m'self. Pish tush! The very idea, tellin' a chap his own moniker!