Quotes About Self-discovery

I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core

I guess when you're trying to find all the parts of yourself, it's difficult to be with someone who's already fully intact.

Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For once, I couldn't take advice from anyone around me about what I should or shouldn't do. I couldn't go running to mum and dad and I can't compare my marriage to anybody else's, we all follow our own rules.

We see being Flawed as a strength, Celestine. If you make a mistake, you learn from it. If you never make a mistake, you're never the wiser. These so-called perfect leaders we have now have never made a mistake. How can they have learned what's right and wrong, how could they have learned anything about themselves? About what they feel comfortable doing, about what they feel is beyond the scope of their character? The more mistake you have made, the more you have learned.

In order to fly one must first clear the shit off one's wings. First step is to identify the shit.

all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.

There's the person who you think you should be and there's the person who you really are. I've lost sense of both.

The reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realisation that you can't be all you wanted to be

To look back, to go back, is not to be weak. It is not to reopen wounds. It takes strength, it takes courage. It takes a person who is more in control of who they are to cast a discerning, non-judgmental eye over who they once were.

I learned something important that night. You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

Explaining one's recent loss as more of a continuous journey rather than a dead end, giving one of the invaluable opportunity to gain strength and learn about oneself, and thereby turning this terribly tragic affair into something hugely positive.

THERE'S THE PERSON you think you should be and there's the person you really are. I'm not sure who I should be, but I now know who I am. And that, I say, is the perfect place to start again.

I lost something that I thought defined me and I felt like a shell of a person. Instead of trying to get it back, I had to figure out why I couldn't be whole all by myself.

The more time she is spending around people, the more she discovers of her own character failures. In the cottage she was generous, she was kind, she was positive. In this world new sides of her are emerging and she doesn't like it. She thought she was a better person than this.

you used to be much more… muchier. You've lost your muchness.

I prefer this version of me, yet I became this way because I lost him. If I ever had the power to undo everything, I wouldn't want to unravel who I've become.

The older i got, the taller i got, the more that hole within me stretched until it was gaping throughout my adult life, like a wide eyed jaw-dropping fish on ice...

Somewhere along the line I had forgotten to figure out who and where I was.

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself.

Ne trebaš baš sve pokušavati sprije?iti. Katkad ti treba biti neugodno. Katkad trebaš biti ranjiv pred ljudima. Katkad je to nužno zato što je tako?er dio puta prema novom dijelu tebe, prema sutrašnjem danu.

What is she doing in this world? Where is she going? She knows she has so much further to go than the distance she has come.

Hence all thoughts about myself now begin with Perhaps... because I'm having to think about myself in ways I never did before and I'm not sure if I'm right in my thinking about those things.