Quotes About Self-discovery

We are meant to do the work of angels for we are often disguised from ourSelves.

Every person in the world has to figure out what the right place for them is. It's okay to be afraid, as long as you don't allow the fear to take over your life.

Deep within ourselves, we find the inner being, the inner source of love, which is our true nature. Love is the only reality, because only love works.

Everything you want lies on the other side of learning to trust yourself. Take a chance. Have faith. You already know who you are, what you want, and where you want to go.

When you're looking for a relationship, the process weakens you. you feel you have to bear with whatever the other person wants. Each of the people I have met has made this a little more clear.

By loving the broken parts in youI learn to love the broken parts in me.I learn that we are not broken after all.

If you follow someone who decides to leave your life, you are walking away from yourself.

We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us!

I feel such poignancy when I look back and see this image of myself, this unworldly young woman, trying so hard to please, yet not wanting anyone to come near.

Te trezeÅŸti c? ai devenit ceva, aproape f?r? s?-Å£i mai aminteÅŸti începuturile acestei transform?ri.

One becomes oneself when one learns one's history.

And I was scrambling around trying to make money and to study and master (and fail at mastering) the art of being an adult.

She was a strange, unsettled planet that had had once sustained life. She was a language that I had thought I almost understood even though I couldn't speak it. She hadn't always been this way. She used to wear high knee socks and short shorts and tube tops, and travel everywhere on roller skates.

Nomi, he said, you just need to wake up to the fact that other people need to know where you're going. But there's nobody behind me, I told him. And he said, reassuringly, that someday there may be.

Greta has many times announced that she is no longer a Mennonite -- and yet was born from Mennonites and continues to live as a Mennonite, with Mennonites, in a Mennonite colony, where she speaks the Mennonite language. Those things do not make me a Mennonite, Greta argues... [I] don't know where to go.

When we have liberated ourselves, we will have to ask ourselves who we are.

What do you mean? I don't know what you're asking me. I don't remember what I am. I am what I dream. I am what I hope for. I am what I don't remember. I am what other people want me to be. I am what my kids want me to be. I am what mom wants me to be. I am what you want me to be. What do you want me to be? Don't we need to stick around to find out what we are? What do you want me to be? Oh I don't

You are not your past.

This world can be a trying place, Inspector. Sometimes you have to shed who you were to live who you are.

He was doing what a man does when left with nothing. He was telling himself his own life story.

No, I say. You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person that I'm trying to become.

I seemed to slip in a time warp when I visited Morrie, and I liked myself better when I was there.

If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid...But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely.

Don't lose yourself... inside yourself...