Quotes About Self-discovery

I've become so numb, I can't feel you there. Become so tired, so much more aware. In becoming this, all I want to do, is be more like me. And be less like you.

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

in art your limitations are also your strengths. What you're not good at, what you can't think of, even the mistakes you make all contribute to your personal style. To have no such constraints is to be shapeless, she said, and to have no voice. This dictum helped explain Kay's growing identity crisis.

The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own soul.

Live what is within you out loud.

Thanks so much for letting me know. I am really confident that the girls will find a way to come to their own resolution.

By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I'm always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain - or else you'll never keep at them.

People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.

In order for people to live their own lives and fulfill their destiny, they must differentiate themselves from destructive environmental influences.

Without differentiating from parents or caretakers we may never succeed in living our own lives.

I think the hard thing for you Abbie is not going to be getting what you want in life but figuring out what that is. Once you know what you want - really truly- I know you'll get it.

But once we have a practice for taming our Imposters, we're able to get in touch with a much bigger star in the constellation of our lives: the Authentic Soul.

Once we go through the S.O.U.L. practice, we start to understand the narratives and false beliefs we have in our heads from our childhoods that no longer serve us. We're then able to see the world through a new framework: We move from Victim to Manifester. We put a leash on our dominant Imposter and let it serve us, instead of being subservient to it.

We all need to do some amount of emotional and spiritual housekeeping. When we commit to that process, we evolve. We grow. And we get more in touch with our Authentic Souls.

We can travel all over the world in a soul quest to "find ourselves" and answer proverbial questions about the meaning of life.

Your Authentic Self emerges when you're unburdened by the rash judgments, negative self-talk, fears, and reactivity of your Imposters.

Your Authentic Self is informed by the experiences and hard-won wisdom you've accrued throughout your life. It's also about expression: who you are when you are free and uncensored.

the individual has the key to change themselves. It's buried deep inside each and every one of us and although someone else can help us to find the key, we're the only ones who can use it. And there

You know, how you get to forty and you suddenly stop giving a shit about all the stupid things you worried about your whole life.

I'm not sure, any more, I'm not sure about anything. But I'd happily try it. Try anything really, just to get back to myself.

And you will always be so much more than a label.

I'm not going to tell you that in ten years you'll look back and wonder what the hell you were thinking, because I remember being twenty-one and thinking that my personality was a solid thing, that me was set in stone, that I would always feel what I felt and believe what I believed. But not I know that me is fluid and shape-changing.

I'm not going to tell you in ten years you'll look back and wonder what the hell you were thinking, because I remember being 21 and thinking my personality was a solid thing, that 'me' was set in stone, that I would always feel what I felt and believe what I believed. But now I know 'me' is fluid and shape-changing. So whatever you're feeling now, it's temporary.

She can see how this self-possessed child might appear to other children. But she doesn't believe that it's the way it must be; she doesn't believe that Poppy couldn't learn to enjoy time with her peers, to stop rolling her eyes at them and alienating them. She doesn't know, thinks Laurel, she doesn't know that this isn't how you grow up.