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Quotes About Self-discovery

I go back into myself and find a whole world!
~ Goethe
Volk und Knecht und Überwinder Sie gestehen, zu jeder Zeit, Hoechtes Glueck der Erdenkinder Sei nur die Personlichkeit.
~ Goethe Johann Wolfgang von
Talent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life.
~ Goethe, Schiller, Hebel, et al
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
~ Golda Meir
Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
~ Golo Mann
Every time you deny a desire, ignore a passion, neglect a true calling or silence a truth within you, your SPIRIT fades. Follow your BLISS!
~ Gordana Biernat
Explore your truths. Trust what you find. Don't take anything personally. Release. Let go. Always go with your flow. Relax. Enjoy more.
~ Gordana Biernat
You attract circumstances, relationships and things in alignment to your awareness. How conscious, of who YOU really are, are you?
~ Gordana Biernat
illuminated where I stood so I could better see myself and the world around me, and then he took that light and held it out so I could see the footholds and ledges I would need to reclaim a productive life.
~ Gordon Livingston
All I could think was that no matter how close we are to someone else, there are limits, frontiers between us that we just can't cross, things that touch us so deeply they can't be shared with anyone else. Maybe, I thought, it's what we can't share with others that really defines who we are.
~ Gordon Reece
Age 14. — ...inwardly, we're much older than other girls our age. Even though I'm only fourteen... I feel I'm more of a person than a child...
~ Anne M. Frank, letter, 1944
There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
~ James Russell Lowell
Your soul is a trooper. If you find you're stronger than you thought, don't waste a moment being surprised by it — be motivated, and stronger, and start the race!
~ Terri Guillemets
Don't think you're on the right road just because it's a well-beaten path.
~ Author Unknown
Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you're locked up.
~ Author Unknown
Sometimes you need to spend time in an empty desert to discover how full your soul is.
~ Terri Guillemets
Dreams are free therapy. Consult your inner Freud.
~ Terri Guillemets
Life is too short to spend every day doing something you don't love.
~ Jack Welch
I took everybody, including the dog, for a ride, and we went around the block four or five times, congratulating one another upon our new mobility. I discovered that my former casual attitude of timid acquiescence was not consistent with someone who could drive a car, so I fell gradually into a new personality, swashbuckling and brazen, with a cigarette usually hanging out of one corner of my mouth because I had to keep both hands on the wheel.
~ Jackson Shirley
suspended between the carefree child of the Sanctuary I had once been and the confident adult I wished to become.
~ Jacqueline Carey
super-size emotions had saved me. God knows, I'd spent enough time wrestling with them, but I'd never thought before about how much of what animates us as human beings—or semi-human beings—depends on our feelings. Without
~ Jacqueline Carey
Do you want to be an actress too?' I wondered if she was mocking me. 'I don't know what I want to be,' I said. 'Well, what are you good at?' said Sarah.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
Never fear going in circles, Maisie. The next time around, you'll see something you missed before—that's if your mind is open. And you will be different, and it will be better. Experience, Maisie. Knowledge of yourself. And when you have knowledge, you have wisdom. If your mind is open, and your heart is willing.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
My child, when a mountain appears on the journey, we try to go to the left, then to the right; we try to find the easy way to navigate our way back to the easier path." He paused. "But the mountain is there to be crossed. It is on that pilgrimage, as we climb higher, that we are forced to shed the layers upon layers we have carried for so long. Then we find that our load is lighter and we have come to know something of ourselves in the perilous climb.
~ Jacqueline Winspear