Quotes About Self-discovery

Clearing the past was a precise process of becoming aware of our individual ways of controlling learned in childhood. And once we could transcend this habit, it said, we would find our higher selves, our evolutionary identities.

experience is the evidence

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why

No one ever gave me an instruction manual on how to be an openly gay man.

He was a gay man who had to leave home to find himself, not a gay man who had found himself within his own home.

It was not necessary to leave to learn that. But there were other reasons to go. If a person had a child but no husband, a room but no house, a place but no home, a will but no way, and if a person was losing her son and herself, little by little, day by day, because she knew what she knew in her skin and bones but not what her sister-in-law knew in her books and pamphlets, then yes, it was necessary.

For to be Happy in Life, choose Self the Colors of Life.

Mitch looked out toward the horizon. "I took up surfing because I wanted to conquer something bigger than my pa, bigger than myself. Out there, I could be free. I could forget my anger, overcome monster waves, and not hurt anyone.

Everyone has to act out of character sometimes. It's like taking your clothes off: you feel free without your character but very naked, unprotected. Unfinished. So you get dressed again- you put on yourself-and then you know who you are.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

Know your own happiness.

one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…

She wanted to be alone. Her mind was in a state of flutter and wonder, which made it impossible for her to be collected. She was in dancing, singing, exclaiming spirits; and till she had moved about, and talked to herself, and laughed and reflected, she could be fit for nothing rational.

Oh! Miss Woodhouse, the comfort of being sometimes alone!

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions;

I am ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers.

She was, in fact, beginning very much to wonder that she had ever thought him pleasing at all; and his sight was so inseparably connected with some very disagreeable feelings, that, except in a moral light, as a penance, a lesson, a source of profitable humiliation to her own mind, she would have

I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself.

She always says she doesn't believe women should get married before the age of thirty-five...she says women change so much in their twenties, they can't possibly know who they are, and the choices they make before the age of thirty are rarely good ones.

women change so much in their twenties, they can't possibly know who they are, and the choices they make before the age of thirty are rarely good ones.

Allowing ourselves to show our vulnerability is how we make human connections. If we're not showing other people our true selves, our weaknesses and flaws, how can we ever allow ourselves to be known?

You hate your job. Oh, come on, don't even. You hate your job and you just told a partner you're handing in your written notice. The world is your oyster, Meredith. Now you just have to figure out what you want to do. How do you feel? Be honest. How does it feel to walk away from two giant parts of your life that were making you miserable?

It doesn't matter how many years go by, how grown-up we think we are, how much we presume we have changed or evolved, when we are back in our childhood homes, we become exactly who we have always been