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Quotes About Self-discovery

You know how everything seems so normal when you're growing up," she asked plaintively, "and then comes this moment when you realize your whole family is nuts?
~ Karen Joy Fowler
I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
~ Karen Karbo
Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insight, and wisdom that you already possess. Live the life in front of you, be the life you are, and see what you find out for yourself.
~ Karen Maezen Miller
I lock eyes with my reflection and don't look away. The day you look away you start to lose yourself. I'm never going to lose myself. You are what you are. Deal with it or change.
~ Karen Marie Moning
The key to resisting Voice," Barrons instructed, "is finding that place inside you no one else can touch. "You mean the sidhe -seer place?" I said, hopping like a one-legged chicken. "No, a different place. All people have it. Not just sidhe -seers. We're born alone and we die alone. That place." "I don't get it." "I know. That's why you're hopping.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Woman, you are a thousand kinds of fool.
~ Karen Marie Moning
How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?
~ Karen Marie Moning
If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair?
~ Karen Marie Moning
Some of us are born more than once. Some of us recreate ourselves many times. Ryodan says adaptability is survivability. Ryodan says a lot of stuff. Sometimes I listen, All I know is, every time I open my eyes, my brian kicks on. Something wakes up deep in my belly, and I know I'll do anything it takes... To. Just. Keep. Breathing.
~ Karen Marie Moning
But it seems Ive got this set of scales inside me that I never used to have, or at least I wasnt aware of, and I cant shake the feeling that if I dont try to keep them balanced, Ill lose something I wont be able to get back.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I love re-creating myself. Change means you get to choose again. Become something new. -Dani
~ Karen Marie Moning
Suddenly so many things she'd overheard her brothers and Quinn saying when Grimm had been in residence made sense, and upon reflection she suspected a part of her had always known. Her love was a legendary warrior who had grown to despise himself, cut off from his roots. But now that he was home and given the time to explore those roots, he might be able to make peace with himself at long last.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Barrons fucks you up. Ryodan makes you fuck yourself up.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Ryodan made me question myself and pushed me to be the most I could be.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Beautiful Girl, wake the fuck up, can't eviscerate essential self.
~ Karen Marie Moning
giving her a chance to fly." "They're my wings." "It's her sky. You were made, not born. It's Dani's life.
~ Karen Marie Moning
There is a monster inside me. And she's beautiful.
~ Karen Marie Moning
The most critical, defining battles we wage in life, we wage alone. Against ourselves. It
~ Karen Marie Moning
Solitude and inaction are unraveling me right down to the core.
~ Karen Marie Moning
And she doesn't want company. I can't fault her for that. We all must make our way alone before we're much good at making our way together.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I turned and stared into the mirror. The reflection of a stranger stared back. I touched my face in the reflection. No, she wasn't a stranger. She was a woman who'd stepped out of her comfort zone in order to survive, who'd become a fighter. I liked the woman I saw in the looking glass.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Kim olduÄŸumu öÄŸrendiÄŸin zaman, erkeÄŸin olmama izin ver.
~ Karen Marie Moning
She's going to burn herself to ash if she doesn't find someone or something that takes her all the way down to ground zero and recharges her.
~ Karen Marie Moning