Quotes About Self-discovery

Stay true to yourself and the answer will become clear

I spent a considerable amount of time when I was, o, adolescent, wondering why I was different, whether there were other people like me. Why, when everyone else was fascinated by their developing sexual nature, I couldn't give a damn. I've never been attracted to men. Or women. Or anything else. It's difficult to explain, but while I have an apparently normal female body, I don't have any sexual urge or appetite.

It hurt, remembering. Hurt because there was so much I'd done, so much I'd yet to do. In so many different ways, I now realized, not remembering had been a blessing. A brief respite in the twisted bloody mess that my life had become. But at least I knew who I was.

Being alone feels more honest.

I say don't find yourself. I say never know who you are. Because that's what keeps you striving & discovering, and it forces you to remain humble in your judgments & accepting of the differences in others.

Knowing yourself" or "finding yourself" can be dangerous. It can cement you into a strict role & saddle you with unnecessary expectations. It can close you off to inner potential & outer opportunities.

Did anyone ever tell you that you're unbearably beautiful when you get released from policy custody, girl?" he asked. "I can't say that they have. And I apparently wasn't in custody. Just too ignorant to leave on my own.

I didn't want us to abnormal. I didn't want all this chaos and underworld crap... but that's where we'd come from. The choas was part of us. Part of what we were. And I was afraid if we lost it completely, we might lose part of ourselves...

The funny thing about a whole class of technology that enhances experience and personalization is that it puts great pressure on us to know who we are.

A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.

The greatest benefit of the arrival of artificial intelligence is that AIs will help define humanity. We need AIs to tell us who we are.

Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.

The only part of her that she had to leave behind was the part of her that doubted what she was capable of.

As human beings we govern our actions with our deepest fears. But if you name that shit, you claim that shit: let enough people into your closet and you'll find there's no more room for skeletons. Leave yourself nowhere to hide and you can live your life unguarded.

I guess I just mean that sometimes your mom says that things will be better for you in the future. And I think they will, Frankie. I think you're really smart and I think you'll do fine. But I also think it's not so bad if you never quite feel right in this world. It's still worth hanging around. You just have to look harder to find the things you love." "Okay," I said. I kind of wanted to hug him.

And I know, in that moment, that my life is real, because there's a line from this moment all the way back to that summer, when I was sixteen, when the whole world opened up and I walked through it.

And even then, sixteen years old, I knew that I would hate every person in my life who loved me, who took care of me, who helped me find a way to whatever life I would have, because I could never tell them who I was, what I'd done.

We were sixteen. How did you prevent your life from turning into something so boring that no one wanted to know about it? How did you make yourself special?

But I was sixteen. I lived inside of myself way more than I lived inside of this town.

Like Rachel Dolezal, I too became black around the age of five. I first became a n----r at nine, so I had me a good run.

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Nine months spent in the womb of your mother have transformed a drop of water into 'you' – hearing, seeing and thinking. Can you imagine what a lifetime spent with the Qur'?n – seeking, hearing, seeing, thinking, striving – can do for you?