Quotes About Self-discovery

Caradore has made a woman out of a little mouse.

He could tell that Owen thought it was like putting his hand to a mirror and finding that his fingers could slide through the glass to another world, touch the image that lay there, the image of himself. It was disorienting for him, but desire kindled courage.

Was his purpose in being here simply to find a new, more impulsive side to himself? He would be the first to admit that might be an improvement.

You were a lonely child," Tiy pronounced, "and you are a lonely woman.

You are learning about yourself," he said. "Such knowledge can defend you better than a sword or armor. Such knowledge gives you arrows of the mind.

We create ourselves constantly.

Pharinet was nineteen years old, alone and in love. Once Valraven had left her world, she realized this forbidden feeling had been within her for many years, disguised as something else. She was appalled: at herself and the strength of the emotion. This was the sea made manifest in her body, churning and heaving.

This is the way of things, she thought. We seek answers and enlightenment, and expect to find it in others, but essentially, it is down to us.

The person you were still lives inside you. You must find him.

Where had the delicate silent child gone, who'd been more like a mute mermaid stranded on land than a human being? What he saw now was a determined young woman who despite the passion of her words spoke clearly and firmly.

He is coming into bloom, remembering himself, no longer denying who and what he is.

I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me." (p.531)

Don't think me a mouse, she thought, or even a little wren. I will discover for myself what kind of animal I am.

We don't want to eliminate the ego completely. Otherwise we'd be wandering around the house each morning, drinking coffee for hours, saying, 'Who the hell am I?' We need the ego to sustain a sense of identity.

Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want.

Perhaps each of us has a starved place, and each of us knows deep down what we need to fill that place. To find the courage to trust and honor the search, to follow the voice that tells us what we need to do, even when it doesn't seem to make sense, is a worthy pursuit.

The one thing you learn is when you can step out of your comfort zone and be uncomfortable you see what you're made of and who you are.

Place is of consequence only to the extent that it encourages or demands the confrontation of the self by the self, which is solitude's true vocation.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

Sometimes the waters of our spirits are churned and murky, and it is difficult to tap the reservoirs of our innate wisdom and knowledge. But the waters will settle as we do. Quietly and gently encourage yourself to go inside. Clarity will come.

No one can construct for you the bridge on which you must cross the stream of life, no one but you alone.

civilization able to produce a Mahavira, a Mirabai, a Malik Ambar, a Periyar, a Muhammad Iqbal and a Mohandas Gandhi is a place open to radical experiments with self-definition. It

I could just stay there, in the place where I was always different. For years...I held myself apart. I will not commit to you. Though I am here, my real life is elsewhere. It was the only stance I knew how to take.

Solitude matters, and for some people it is the air that they breathe.