Quotes About Self-discovery

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

Even the wisest don't know what's hidden in the depths of their being

In the things we love lie clues to who we are. What we want for those we love.

In your yearning you have made me into that which I am not.

Anything that makes us forget our true selves is a trap, princess—even something we love or define as beautiful.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

now I sometimes wonder if it might not have been the most worthwhile of the skills I learned on the island.

The dream is a mirror showing me my beauty. I bless the dream. The dream is a mirror showing me my ugliness. I bless the dream.

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

Remain true to yourself—and to your heart. Be courageous and remember, even the blackest night must end in dawn.

Many people have discovered that mindfulness offers them a down-to-earth yet immediate way to connect with themselves. It is simple acceptance, described here as making friends with yourself. It is, as well, a means to unlock creativity and compassion. Meditation is a powerful technique for developing mindfulness, which can help us discover a way of being that is authentic, relaxed, and gentle. Meditation

See you spend your whole life fighting with your father and no time on making your own life. What will you do when he dies? Fight yourself?

almost a grown man, yet when it came to his mutant

I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well-- here is the truth-- you have to talk yourself out of it.

Perhaps this was what it was to grow up: this realization that the world was already staffed with people and that one was not particularly needed. She

Murder me with bombs you poor lonely sod I will only build myself again and stronger. I am too stupid to know better I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself.

I sat in the ground, with the warm sun shining on my back, and I realized that the earth had not rejected me and the sunlight had not snapped me in two.

This is the essence of travel, or at least travel taken to completion: it's not the change of scenery, or the new way of preparing lamb - it's you. You are lost to yourself, you don't know who will emerge from the pit.

These kids up here, they act like the toughest kids in in the world, just like me, but this is the first time I've ever seen under that toughness--in anybody else or in me. I'm really scared, because if I'm going to have a life, I'm going to have to act different, and I don't know if I can.

Clara had said to ask God for the truth. "Discover the truth about God, who He is, how He works, how much He loves. And then you'll uncover the truth about yourself, your sin, the ways you displease God. The truth about your life is always better to know, even if it hurts.

But even so I can't stop writing even for a day--I'm doing it to save my life. These letters're the first time I've ever tried to talk about ideas because I need to, not just to amuse or entertain.