Quotes About Self-discovery

It is not nearly so important to know who you are as who you might be.

Life is an education, Drisker. It is learned mostly through what you discover on your own and not through what others tell you.

When we are told to live in the moment, perhaps it is because that is where we know ourselves best. Before long, we find ourselves standing on the rim of a deeply forested valley that stretches away in front of us for several miles in three directions.

You have to accept yourself, who you are. You don't believe. You still fight who you are. Until you accept yourself, until you believe, you won't be able to call forth your Han, your power, except in great anger.

It was like finding the other half of myself and being complete, whole, for the first time in my life.

Because after my marriage fell apart I felt like an empty parking space, and James just pulled into it.

At some point, we need to be honest with ourselves and do what excites us instead of what looks good on paper.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life with you

The secret is not to dream, she whispered. The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine.

It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.

And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune? Can't girls seek their fortune? I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.

People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.

Then it came to her. She did not deserve to die. And she was not alone. She never would be. Not while her land was beneath her boots. Her land. The land of the Achings. She was Tiffany Aching. Not Granny Weatherwax, but a witch in her own right. A witch who knew exactly who she was and how she wanted to do things. Her way. And she had not failed, because she had barely begun...

She couldn't be the prince, and she'd never be a princess, and she didn't want to be a woodcutter, so she'd be the witch and know things.

When you've made up your mind to shout out who you are to the world, it's a relief to know that you can do it in a whisper.

I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more.

That was always the dream, wasn't it? "I wish I knew then what I know now"? But when you got older, you found out that you now wasn't you then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp. A much better dream, one that'd ensure sounder sleep, was not to know now what you didn't know then.

But a girl starting out in life might well say to herself: 'Is this it? You worked hard and denied yourself things and what you got at the end was hard work and self-denial?

Granny hesitated. Agnes who calls herself Perditax? Perdita X, said Nanny. She at least respected anyone's right to recreate themselves.

Magrat woke up. And knew she wasn't a witch anymore. The feeling just crept over her, as part of the normal stock-taking that any body automatically does in the first seconds of emergence from the pit of dreams: arms: 2, legs: 2, existential dread: 58%, randomized guilt: 94%, witchcraft level: 00.00.

But the banging of the door as punctuation caused Tiffany to think and she thought suddenly, I want to do it my way. Not how the other witches think it should be done. I can't be Granny Weatherwax for them. I can only be me, Tiffany Aching.

Talent just defines what you do...It doesn't define what you are. Deep down, I mean. When you know what you are, you can do anything

I was a part. Now I am apart. Only when you are apart do you know who you are.

You know, after a woman's raised a family and so on, she wants to start living her own life.