Quotes About Self-discovery

Don't try to be me. No one but me can be me. But you can be you. Look inside yourself and get to know who the real you is. And then be that person. The best version of you.

Without God, for me, I'm not the best version of myself.

I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

I drank the Kool-Aid of being a network star. Once it didn't happen, I realized it wasn't the best version of my comedy.

As a child actor, you haven't been allowed to be yourself for most of your life; you've been constrained by the demands of your job, your parents, directors. A fictional or amplified version of you exists, but when you're 17, you can't have a debate with yourself about authenticity.

I definitely understand not entirely fitting in. I think everyone has their own version of feeling out of place and I think one of the great things we have the ability to do is to know it's all right. It's OK to have that awkward phase.

convingerea c? nu exist? o "elit?" a destinului omenesc È™i c? omul "cu mâinile È™i cu buzunarele goale" este chemat s?-È™i f?ureasc? într-o lupt? permanent? cu forÈ›ele adverse È™i, uneori, cu el însuÈ™i, viaÈ›a, justificarea, meseria, bucuria È™i propria lui conÈ™tiin??.

Descoperind c? sunt mic,n-am mai cunoscut decât o singur? lege:s? m? ca??r. Am devenit tr?d?tor ÅŸi am r?mas tr?d?tor.În zadar m? implic total în ceea ce fac,m? d?ruiesc f?r? preget muncii,maniei,prieteniei,peste o clip? am s? m? reneg,o ÅŸtiu,ÅŸi m? tr?dez de pe acum,în plin? pasiune voioas? a viitoarei mele tr?d?ri.

Não existe amor senão aquele que se constrói; não há possibilidade de amor senão a que se manifesta num amor; Um homem compromete-se com sua vida, desenha seu rosto e para além desse rosto, não existe nada.

no nos convertimos en lo que somos sino mediante la negación íntima y radical de lo que han hecho de nosotros

It is your show. It is your universe. There is no one else here, just you, and nothing is being withheld from you. You are completely on your own. Everything is available for direct knowing. No one else has anything you need. No one else can lead you, pull you, push you or carry you.

Wake up first. Wake up, and then you can double back and perhaps be of some use to others if you still have the urge. Wake up first, with pure and unapologetic selfishness, or you're just another shipwreck victim floundering in the ocean and all the compassion in the world is of absolutely no use to the other victims floundering around you.

I don't see it as my role to save or rescue anybody any more than regular people feel the need to rescue each other from sleeping and dreaming.

The true self is always in motion—like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why you must freely and recklessly make new mistakes—in writing or life—and do not dwell on them but move on and write more. —Brenda Ueland

I rose to my knees, mouth dry and heart pounding, and paused to finger a rip in my beautiful Dacron bowling shirt. I pushed my fingertip through the hole and wiggled it at myself. Hello, Dexter, where are you going? Hello, Mr. Finger. I don't know, but I'm almost there. I hear my friends calling.

Steady, Dexter, I thought. This is just a small, painful reminder of who you are and where you came from, brought on by stress. It has nothing to do with operatic cattle.

Still, maybe a good challenge was just what she needed to bring her back to herself. So perhaps the best thing to do was simply to call her and tell her—let loose the dogs of war and let the chips fall where they may. It was a wonderfully mangled metaphor, which made it seem even more convincing, so I stepped away from the group of cops and reached for my cell phone. Deborah

there are defining moments in one's life when you learn a lot about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

What does a "good life" really mean to you, how does it relate to your sources of meaning and purpose and to your deepest values, and what keeps you from realizing the possibility for greater well-being in your life?

Your anger is part of your healthy side. It is serving a useful purpose, telling you that you need to change the way you relate to other people. Your anger can help you to get in touch with the part of yourself that wants something different—that wants to change and grow. One powerful way to get in touch with this sense of yourself is through your anger. Your anger may be your only clue that there is something else that you want.

The boundary between who you are and who they are becomes blurred. You might adopt other people's goals and opinions as your own. You might adopt other people's values. You might lose yourself in the other. There is a chance that you might subjugate yourself to a group, particularly a group with a charismatic leader. You might even find some attraction to cult groups.

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.

Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life ahead of her--a life in which, if she persevered, she might do something special--and that part of persevering meant getting past moments just like this one, when people made you feel small, unlovable, and took away your confidence.

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.