Quotes About Self-discovery

Over the years I've grown to love the industry, my job, and the profession itself. It's been a journey full of ups and downs. For the first few years, it was a journey of self discovery where I grew to love acting while acting.

My journey on 'The Bachelor' was interesting. I definitely grew but had ups and downs.

When I was at graduate school, you wouldn't have recognised me. I was so different - and not a nice person: a grumpy, surly, upset, confused, lost person.

It is good for a person who has suffered from acute shyness, as I had, to find that he can cause as much upset as he suffered. Better to be a brute, I thought, than to be a wallflower.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Do you think that too, " she said, "that I have slept too long in the moonlight?

A woman should never go so far with someone, that she cannot come back alone...not for love..not for society…not for herself. It took me so long to find my way back.

For women, the important ingredients for happiness are to forge an identity, serve the Lord, get an education, develop your talents, serve your family, and, if possible, to have a family of your own.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become

I'm OK with being the Old Spice Guy because before I was the Old Spice Guy I was the guy looking for work on his couch.

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas – and you have to work through it all.

Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.

I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

There is no sense talking about "being true to yourself" until you are sure what voice you are being true to. It takes hard work to differentiate the voices of the unconscious.