Quotes About Self-discovery

You'll have lots of questions to answer as you get older. Who you are. Who you want to be. What you think about things. Like politics. And romances. And whether you'll be able to speak out or keep your mouth shut. It's always a challenge to work out the best way to live your life, and as much as everyone tells you what to do, ultimately how you do things is up to you.

Even now I cling to the idea that amour fou, curdled as it was, still had me in its grip. I want to believe this. If you do not act out of some form of love, then who are you in the world?

before he left home, he broke his name. Broke it into thirty-eight tiny pieces… He swept up all the pieces of who he was and tucked them away in an inside pocket. And over the years, as he met people who ended up sharing the road with him, travelling with him for a while, he would quietly give each of them a piece of his name… with all the jigsaw pieces of his name scattered about, they wouldn't be able to get all of him when they came to take him away.

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

I'd always wanted to be a boy. Jimmy was my name, if you want to know.

Oh, she missed herself. It felt like she used to miss Abe, when he was at Harvard and then after they broke up. No, deeper than that: the way she sometimes missed her parents when she was a child and had slept over at a friend's. She was homesick for herself, a longing so deep and unanswerable that for a moment it took her breath away.

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.

What greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves?

We spend our lives crafting masks to fit the roles we are expected to play, but in doing so, we lose sight of who we truly are.

I think that once you're born, the thing you have to do is find out who you are and live that life as well as you can. You can't spend your time wondering how things would have been if you were someone different.

The tricky bit was looking inside yourself to see what bits of the works were missing. Once you'd overcome that hurdle the rest was fairly simple.

My reason for preferring the darkness is that in the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you.

Letting your soul, or whatever fancy name you like to give it, out of its cage and into the daylight is perhaps the hardest thing anyone can do.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

Namely, to learn why and in what manner my suffering in this instance could assist in the increase of my labor-ability. The beneficent result for me from this "Inner-World Revolution" occurring within me was that from that moment on I could freely, without influence of partial feelings, again think in my habitual way.

To awaken means to realize one's nothingness, that is, to realize one's complete and absolute mechanicalness, and one's complete and absolute helplessness... So long as a man is not horrified at himself, he knows nothing about himself.

Vad är det jag inte vet om mig själv Sannolikt nästan allt Var därför inte rädd

I do not know where this mania for understanding oneself has come from, he said, but it clearly exerts a powerful hold on people.

all my past spread out laid bare I trample on it what else to do

If ever we two had a soul, let our soul —keep on walking and leave us behind.

If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves.

Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.

Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.