Quotes About Self-discovery

Mostly, every soul seems to be busily occupied with the lives of others. And what do they know in the end? Nothing. If there is a kingdom of God to be found anywhere, it is within oneself.

Every seeker after truth must remember one thing: that the first step in the path of truth is to become true to oneself.

It is the soul which is happiness itself, not all outer things which man seeks after, and which he thinks will give him happiness. The very fact that man is continually craving for happiness shows that the real element, which may be called man's real being, is not what has formed his body and what has composed his mind, but what he is in himself.

Often, it's not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don't know how to be.

A label doesn't make something so. A label is just a word. It's what a person does that makes them who they are

Kid, not everything in life can be summed up neatly in a paragraph. No book has all of the answers. Not even the really good ones. You have to find the answers yourself sometimes.

They were of her, but not her—a looking glass that reflected the possibility of what might or might not be, and she could not resist plumbing their depths as she sought to understand her own.

I wondered if that principle of renewal could be applied to a person. If you left a girl alone, she could learn to heal herself. She could consciously forget bad things, or at least learn to live with them.

Ultimately, Laura found sufficient resources, both internal and external, to wean herself from the medications, and to see her emotions and moods as fundamentally human, rather than as problems to be solved.

What's the biggest and most important problem I can solve with my gifts and skills? Or: How do I find my consciousness, my truest self?

Like the rest of the world, they seemed to have figured out something I didn't know - where they'd come from, where they were going - and moved on.

I feel by posing for Playboy I've discovered my own sexuality and beauty, and I feel more confident than ever.

When you are born and put into your crib, the whole world sticks their heads over the tops of the bars. They give you a name and they have all sorts of different ideas about you. … But your task is to become something much more unique and surprising than anyone your parents could ever imagine you to be. You have to know that the life you have is completely yours.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. E.E. Cummings

There is an intelligence at work in my body. I am in awe. I had, until then, been pretty certain my brain ran everything. Not so, said the wise labouring body. Not so.

I was going to be in therapy for a long, long time. I wasn't even a sentence yet. But I had some syllables, some new sounds. The first halves of the sentences I was accumulating were solid. I trusted them.

I'll have to figure it out for myself. That's thge problem with life. It's not really a spectator sport.

we drive along this road called life, occasionally a gal finds herself a little lost.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be. —Alan Watts

Unhappiness isn't the worst thing in the world. It doesn't last forever and it usually teaches you something about yourself.

Yes, there was a trick to it. You inherited your life, or you invented it. You figured out what you wanted life to be and then somehow or other you made it that way. Then, miracle of miracles, you liked it!

I believe we each have the opportunity to undergo thousands of little deaths and rebirths everyday. Each time we do, we free up space to live more fully in tune with who we really are, and to go where we are being called to go.

No one benefits from you not following your truth.

I couldn't shake the feeling that something wasn't quite right. I now realize that was probably the first sign my soul wisdom--the voice of my inner, truest self--was trying to get my attention.