Quotes About Self-discovery

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

You get to choose what monsters you want to slay. I'm sorry to say this again, but let's face it - the Force is with you.

I would never have achieved what I've achieved now if I hadn't sorted myself out from the inside. It's all about who I am, not the way I look.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

Fortunately, I've never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera's my soul mate.

Some lessons take years to learn, with repeated exposure to the same path sometimes shadowed by the inner conscience of own souls. But eventually we learn, and our journey continues in another direction.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

I really wanted people just to get to know Solange on my first album, just to establish Solange's sound, just to establish Solange's personality.

I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.

I really ran away in 1951 from South Africa, where I lived with my mother and father - who was a doctor - to come back to England to find myself, then hide what I found.

Pretend you're a southern sheriff. Or Mae West. Or Donald Duck. Buy a western hat and walk around the house like a cowboy. The point of all this, of course, is to draw yourself out of your accustomed groove.

As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently.

I don't know how, at an age when you're trying to put your identity together, how you cope with the pressure of a performance space, which is what social media is.

hide your feelings, hide you thoughts, hide your self from the world but dont hide you from you cause only you know where you stand & the world's knows nothing

Passion is the journey inward.. Purpose is the journey overcoming the fear.. Know Freedom and Leave Your Legend.

i have learnt to live to please myself first instead of other people, when I lived to please others, I lay late in bed with my eyes open in the dark wondering who I was, now I know myself

If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget.

Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather your actions that defined you.