Quotes About Self-discovery

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you. I didn't come here because I wanted to be a colonist. I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore.

Writers create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

Inside us there is a place that is our true self.

If our happiness is the purpose of God, … why are so few of us happy?' 'Perhaps he want us to have the happiness that we can only find for ourselves.

How quickly we find the flesh of God within us all, when we thought that we were only made of dust.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.

If I had any part of you in me," said Han Fei-tzu, "I would not have needed to marry you to become a complete person.

Yet if he lost that desire, who would he be ? What would be in his heart then, if she were gone from it ?

You're just Ender in drag, doing his Valentine bit. You come off the stage and there's nothing there, it comes off like makeup and a costume.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him...

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

It is tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man,' says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.