Quotes About Self-discovery

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.

Long ago I understood that it wasn't merely my being a woman that was preventing my being welcomed into the world of what I long thought of as my peers. It was that I had succeeded in an undertaking few men have even attempted: I have become myself.

Learn what you are, and be such.

Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them.

There is a potential heroine in every woman.

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Ruin and recovery are both from within.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the Kingdom of Heaven, rather than without.

Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Somebody's boring me; I think it's me.

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

When a man tells me he's run out of steam in the sex department, I'll tell him, 'Count your blessings; you've escaped from the clutches of a cruel tyrant. Enjoy!'

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow.

I never thought of myself as a writer, but the simplest thing seemed to be to put a piece of paper in the roller and start typing.

One can acquire everything in solitude but character.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.