Quotes About Self-discovery

We have to find a place that is ours. The doctors keep trying to make us fit into this world, but they're wrong. We need a world that fits us.

But I have no idea who I am." "Yeah. Welcome to the club.

No, I realize Hektor was just another rando bit player on whatever bullshit 'hero's journey' you think you've been on. But when this is over, you'll finally realize that you're not even the star of your own story. You're a goddam black hole.

These days, we can be whatever we want to be. The apocalypse is sort of freeing, don't you think?

I asked her if he missed my poppa. She said she did. But God had always made it so that women outlived men. That way women could have time to be by themselves-a time to be in the world without a reason bein' placed upon it. That women had so many faces: a face for their husband, a face for their children, a face for strangers; only when they were alone could they find that face that suited just them. And if the woman happened to die before the man, that time alone would show him her worth.

a piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning.

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

Galileo once wrote, You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Oliver Wendell Holmes has said, "What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Buddha was asked: "What have you gained from meditation?" He replied: "Nothing." "However", Buddha said, "let me tell you what I lost: Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Insecurity, Fear of Old Age and Death.

How shall we live in order to be happy?" Your ability to ask and answer that question correctly for yourself—and then to follow where your answer leads you—will largely determine whether you achieve your own happiness, and how soon.

My parents had been fearful and they brought me up fearful. They did a good job. It was only later when I learned that my fears were all in my mind, that there was nothing to be afraid of, that my real life began.

Deep down inside, the average person knows that he or she is put on this earth with amazing capabilities. He or she knows that there is something better than this.

am not a consultant; I am an insurant. I don't tell people what to do. I just ask them the hard questions that they need to answer to decide what to do for themselves.

Galileo once wrote, "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

One of your great responsibilities in life is for you to decide for yourself what it is that you really love to do and then to throw your whole heart into doing that special thing very, very well.

But happiness is something you can create or access. Being kind to yourself and having compassion for yourself can connect you to yourself and the happiness that is already residing within you. You cannot go on a path of self-criticism and expect to find joy at the end.

We all need to be the hero of our own story.

I've had a weird couple of weeks, you know? I completely know. But I- I mean, I'm not totally happy, but there's no way I'd go back to my old obvious self! I like it here. I like all the... confusion and heartbreak. It wasn't that bad... was it? Scott... yes, it was. But I feel like I've learned some stuff along the way. I know things now.

Isn't it marvelous to discover that you're the one you've been waiting for? That you are your own freedom?

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

I've always been just me, but I was the last to know that it was all right.

Self-realization is the sweetest thing. It shows us how we are fully responsible for ourselves, and that is where we find our freedom.

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