Quotes About Self-discovery

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

Being alone is very difficult.

All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.

By all means use some time to be alone.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.

Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.

Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

And here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me.

There is lonely, and there is alone time. I have found that both have etched character upon my soul.

Nobody makes anybody enlightened.Just tell them what you want to say, then let them decide for themselves.

My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.

the first step in claiming yourself is anger. You get mad. And you can't do anything before you get angry. And I recommend getting very angry to everyone, anyone.

What you are doing is exploring. You are undertaking the first experience, not of the place, but of yourself in that place... nobody can discover the world for anybody else. It is only after we have discovered it for ourselves that it becomes a common ground and a common bond, and we cease to be alone.

If I could have found in my mind a plain and simple way to be right, that would have been something. I would have been changed in another way, and my life ever afterward would have been different. But having reached the crisis—the crossroad, so to speak—I failed. I didn't have at all the feeling of being right.

Look in and see him looking out. He is not always quiet, but there have been times when happiness has come to him, unasked, like the stillness on the water that holds the evening clear while it subsides - and he let go what he was not.

Mat felt the change upon himself. Now he was the oldest, and the longest memory was his. Now between him and the grave stood no other man. From here on he would find the way for himself.