Quotes About Self-discovery

Adventure most unto itself The Soul condemned to be; Attended by a Single Hound – Its own Identity.

Learning how to operate a soul takes time.

The Negro is the child of two cultures — Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.

Climb from the depths of your soul to the heights of your future.

You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

It is very easy to love alone.

Learn to be alone and to like it. There is nothing more empowering or freeing than learning to like your own company.

You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl – rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.

"What's that line from T.S. Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up."

"Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being."

Moving on after a break up is a great way to get back on your feet and start feeling happy again.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too.

Nothing held her, she was nothing holding to this thing: I am Hermione Gart, a failure.

By means of personal experimentation and observation, we can discover certain simple and universal truths. The mind moves the body, and the body follows the mind. Logically then, negative thought patterns harm not only the mind but also the body. What we actually do builds up to affect the subconscious mind and in turn affects the conscious mind and all reactions.

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, "I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

The answers we seek are not out there. They are found when we bring our attention inward. Our higher self is already within us. We were born with it. It is who we truly are. It is our essence. We just need to wake up. The question is not, what do we need to do in order to achieve enlightenment. The question is, what do we need to let go of in order for enlightenment to flow.

We can't buy salvation. It is not for sale. Salvation is something we already have. Even if we are unaware. Heaven and hell both exist, but only as states of consciousness. Everything required for spiritual enlightenment is within each of us. Right here, right now. We have the ability to be spiritually awake in this moment. We simply allow our higher self to emerge.

You didn't come into this life to be anyone else. You are here to stand out. To express yourself as only you can.

Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.

No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in the darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.

Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves!

I'm not like that, he says. I'm not a … Fairy? –Every time you say that, I whisper, a little part of you will die.