Quotes About Self-discovery

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.

Education helps you to be what you really want to be.

It is better to be alone then to be in a relationship, while you are trying to figure out what love means to you.

Moving on will show you a lot about who you are, what you truly want, & what you have no desire to waste your time on.

Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting. It's about the ability, courage, and commitment to end the war within oneself and not quit until the job is done.

I wasn't never gonna run off again, no matter how bad things got. But I wasn't gonna be too scared to love the folks that took the time to love me back, and I sure wasn't gonna chase them that don't. And I was gonna spend the rest of my life asking questions and looking behind everything that happened, so I could find the gifts I got tucked inside me.

I wondered, what other gifts I got bottled up inside me? That question had started to gnaw on me some.

So, Beav, tell me about yourself." "I'm Blue." "Sweetheart, if I had your dubious taste in men, I wouldn't be too happy, either." "My name is Blue. Blue Bailey.

I don't need to be fixed anymore. That job's already been done. I love you, Annabelle. -Heath Champion-

There was something missing inside me I was trying to fill up, but I went about doing it the wrong way. But there sure isn't anything missing inside me now, because you're there.

Meséljen magáról, Hód. - Blue vagyok. - Drágám, ha ilyen rossz ízlésem lenne a férfiak terén, én sem lennék boldog. - A nevem Blue. Blue Bailey. - Álnévnek t?nik. - Anyám aznap egy kicsit depis volt, amikor kitöltötte a születési anyakönyvi kivonatomat.

I skipped a class because his old college friends were in town. Then I was late for a rehearsal because he was getting an award. He had an open slot in his schedule, and we'd talked about taking a vacation together. I was about to turn down a concert when I finally woke up and realized I was losing myself.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Through trial, I've learned to be myself, and strive not to please man but to please God.

At a crucial point in my early twenties, being able to end a pregnancy had restored to me what I regarded as a normal life. I remember that it saved me.

IN THE DARKROOM

Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.

One of the benefits of TM, Agatha had said, was that it enabled you to be "alone with your thoughts." But as I quickly discovered, a lot of my thoughts were not anything I wanted to be alone with.

Sometimes she wasn't even sure she existed and could not have said what her truest feelings were, or indeed where she ended or began. The girl felt she had no proper shape, no sides as it were, and she dreamed of being more fixed, more clever, of winning the admiration of brilliant unknown people. In the future, when she grew up, her life would be as beautiful as a book, peopled by interesting and fascinating things, sweeter than music or love. -- Susan Johnson, The Broken Book

Once you know what true for you, it'll all get clearer.

Finding the pathway that best expresses our true selves is a process that can continue throughout life and needn't be locked into a particular decade.

Living is really hard, but death is forever. We're all going to die eventually, so what's your rush' Even if you think committing suicide will make you seem tragic and romantic and cool, you'll never know what happened anyway. Don't you want to know how your life was supposed to turn out. Wouldn't you like to see what you're made of?