Quotes About Self-discovery

Awareness is our true self; it's what we are.

I didn't know that my brother's death was defining me. I didn't know that I had the ability to say no to being defined by death. Now I was with a person who could help me process what happened and turn the parts of me that acted like a nine-year-old into a self-actualized adult who had come to a better understanding of what it means to dig deep and admit your pain - thereby beginning the process of relinquishing it.

Vulnerability in my mind was akin to carbohydrates: I wasn't willing to go there unless it was alcohol-induced.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! —ANNE

The Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming Your Power, Creativity, Brilliance, and Dreams, by Debbie Ford—a wonderful book about owning and embracing all aspects of who we are, such as the overachiever, the

My CD Tuning In: Listening to the Voice of Your Soul— this will teach you to go within to access your own wisdom using a 10-, 20-, and 30-minute guided-meditation process.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within you. The worst part is you can't even tell who is who.

I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

It has helped me to understand more about who I am- the geography of my own soul.

I kind of understood at a young age that I didn't play well with most other kids in the sandbox.

have become a born-again woman just so the sex would be hot. No orgasm in the world is worth all that electrolysis. Truthfully, I became an external woman because I have always been an internal woman. That's all there is to it.

When you give voice to your fear, when you expose it, as vulnerable as that makes you, you give others the same permission. You give them courage to believe there's more to life than cowering. You give hope. And my guess is, when you tackle your inner fears, you will eventually tackle what's hold you back from who God intended you to be. Your fears lead you to who you really are.

sometimes you need permission to remember. There are things locked up inside all of us that we don't think are affecting us but have bearing on our lives every day." "You

until you are at home in yourself, familiar with the knowledge of the gold of who you are, where you come from, where you've been, and who you were meant to be, you'll be basically "homeless." In other words, until you can come to value all experience, and find some happyness in everything you've lived and will live, you will be without your ultimate riches.

Few of us can hold on to our real selves long enough to discover the momentous truths about ourselves and this whirling earth to which we cling. This is especially true of men [and women] in war. The great god Mars tries to blind us when we enter his realm, and when we leave he gives us a generous cup of the waters of Lethe to drink. -- J. Glenn Gray, The Warriors: Reflections of Men in Battle

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

I can remember back to being 5 and looking in the mirror, feeling like a girl and wanting that. But growing up in Rochester, there were limited resources. I'd never met a trans person before.

You sort of look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if want to do things if you want to do some cool things and achieve things you've never achieved before.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

You look in the mirror, but you don't see what you actually look like.

I think I became an actress because I didn't know who I was, and I certainly didn't like the person I saw when I looked in the mirror.

I was declared bankrupt a few years ago, which really made me grow up and look in the mirror, face myself, and find strength.

Yes, I did lock myself in my room for about two years and write some songs and things like that. But I don't feel like I missed out on a whole lot.