Quotes About Self-discovery

We walk through ourselves," Stephen Dedalus says in Ulysses, summing up the travel experience, "meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

I travel to find obstacles, to discover my limits, to ease the passage of time

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined.

Two more divorces. Free again, but it's just a feeling; freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose—and commit myself to—what is best for me.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.

It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.

Love is not to be found in someone else but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.

Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

Stop being yourself and become who u always wanted to be

And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.

you only know yourself when you go beyond your limits

Don't allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.

Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.

In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.

We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take.

What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

In life's most significant moments we are always alone.

At some point, we have each said through our tears, "I'm suffering for a love that's not worth it." We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules. But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth.