Quotes About Self-discovery

Would I be as strong as that once I did that thing Christophe was talking about? Blooming? Would I smell like a bakery item? Or was that just him? Did he use pie filling for cologne?

I wondered what I'd end up looking like once I bloomed. I couldn't even guess. If I had to be stuck in my own skinny, gawky, coltish body forever… well. It probably wouldn't be so bad. I wouldn't mind a little more in the chest, though. But wild horses wouldn't drag that out of me. Ever.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.

She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease: her skin felt as though it was her right size.

It's good to get whacked open at least once, though,' she says. 'You can't really love from inside a big, thick shell.

I've forgotten what gets revealed right after you break up with someone.

it scared me, the idea that this professional might go in and find that other person inside me, the person who was feeling all the things I did not let myself feel.

My voice is nothing special, but when your mother tells you something about yourself, even if you've coaxed it out of her, it's hard not to always believe it.

I think of all the people playing roles, getting further and further away from themselves, from what moves them, what stirs them all up inside.

I don't write because I think I have something to say. I write because if I don't, everything feels even worse

All my life I always wanted to be someone. I see now I should have been more specific.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

It seems this time being a grass widow has been good for you; this temporary emancipation from my domination is allowing you to develop your own identity.

You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride.

Sometimes the discovery of something we can classify as our voice coincides with a weariness with that voice, and the struggle begins to create a new voice.

If we haven't chosen what we are living for, we're living life by default, acting out the scripts handed to us by family, other people's agendas, and the pressures of circumstances. This is not living as a woman who knows the meaning and purpose of life.

But sometimes we have to be brave in order to dig deep and find answers. Even if we're not sure we're going to like the answers.

I deserve a year, two years, to live my own self into being." Depressing

Love, like Beauty, is suppose to take you somewhere. It has the possibility (the promise?) of taking you closer to yourself, closer to God, closer to life, to Spirit, to Mystery. No matter what you are loving.

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.