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Quotes About Self-discovery

Finding out what you already know. Repeatingly. That's not sane, is it? And while he might have said that this was how he was, for me it continued to be frightening, panic-making, to hear the low, pleading sounds I'd started making, whenever he was sharp with me. This wasn't how I spoke. (Except it was.) This wasn't me, this crawling, cautious creature. (Except it was.)... none of this was personal.
~ Gwendoline Riley
Szerintem ti semmit sem tudtok magatokról, minthogy sose voltatok évekig magánzárkába zárva.
~ György Spiró
When I write, all those that we don't know we can be write themselves from me, without exclusion, without prediction, and everything that we will be calls us to the tireless, intoxicating, tender-costly-search for love. We will never lack ourselves.
~ Helene Cixous
Go, fly, swim, bound descend, cross, love the unknown, love the uncertain, love what has not yet been seen, love no one, whom you are, whom you will be, leave yourself, shrug off the old lies, dare what you don't dare, it is there that you will take pleasure . . . and rejoice, in the terror, follow it where you're afraid to go, go ahead, take the plunge, you're on the right trail.
~ Helene Cixous
One has to go away, leave the self. How far must one not arrive in order to write, how far must one wander and wear out and have pleasure? One must walk as far as the night. One's own night. Walking through the self toward dark.
~ Helene Cixous
So little by little I climb towards life, in the straitjacket of my prison. I don't waste an ounce of air or sun. I explore I bring to light.
~ Helene Cixous
Woman must write herself and bring woman into literature
~ Helene Cixous
When persons encounter God's self-disclosure, they not only know who God is but also who they are.
~ James H. Cone
Sometimes, you have to look back and remember who you were, before someone told you who you should be.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and loss, in order to discover ourselves. Because out of suffering comes the strongest souls.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
The quotes I write are sometimes about a person who is on the cusp of becoming someone... A person who may not know what they want right now, and they may not know who they are right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
If you look deep enough into yourself." And dare to dig deep enough, you will find that you are a complete whether there is someone in your life or not.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
If you look deep enough into yourself." And dare to dig deep enough, you will find that you are complete whether there is someone in your life or not.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I Am who God called me to be.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
It's in the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I am stuck inside the mask I wear. I want to be unashamed. I want to be unafraid. "There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face, I am whatever was left of the real me that fades a little more every day.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Maybe I've always been broken. "Often it feels like I am breathing today only because I keep hoping that maybe one day, I won't be so broken anymore and one day, I will find the lost pieces of me again.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Who were you before the someone told you what you were not?
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
We all walk along our own path. "Just because someone stumbles and loses their way, doesn't mean they're lost forever.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Who were you before someone told you what you were not?
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Know who you are. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. You have to know who you are. No one else can give you that.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Sometimes life knocks you on your ass. But sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Having an open mind. You don't have to be who you are when you can't help it.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)