Quotes About Self-discovery

A mother is someone who dreams great dreams for you, but then she lets you chase the dreams you have for yourself and loves you just the same.

Sometimes when you're really lonely, you really feel alive and you feel like you know who you are.

Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.

Don't find her and lose you. Find you to find her.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body. In the end, submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life.

Real solutions are discovered only where they actually exist Within the individual's own essence.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody but yourself means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

No one reveals himself more completely to others than to himself - that is, if he reveals himself at all.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

Sometimes I wonder who my mother might be if she weren't married to my father. Everyone around him seems that much less free-spirited, that much less open to possibility, so much more controlled. At her office she is loud and filled with infectious laugher. Here she is more quiet and deferential. I can cut a cucumber, I say more sharply than I intend. She winces and busies herself with searching for a vegetable peeler, if only to make a point.

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

You are Tadeusz Radecki? I am in the right place?' 'I know who I am. What I want to know is who you are.

If a man lives without inner struggle, if everything happens in him without opposition, if he goes wherever he is drawn or wherever the wind blows, he will remain such as he is. But if a struggle begins in him, and particularly if there is a definite line in this struggle, then, gradually, permanent traits begin to form themselves, he begins to 'crystallise'…Crystallisation is possible on any foundations.

The more I got to know you, the more I began to see that something was missing. Something I had convinced myself that I didn't need.

While doing yoga we are more ourselves, and more than ourselves.

In Tibet, the word for meditation is gom, which means "to become familiar with one's self.

Once I got over the belief that I didn't have a right to explore my life when there were many other people in the world experiencing greater suffering than I could imagine, I stepped onto the path that would truly allow me to change.

Sometimes we need to allow ourselves to break down so we can choose different bricks to build ourselves back up.

It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.

In spite of myself, I kept tunneling under and out, carrying secret, scary, confusing discoveries back in with me until, finally, I got to a place where I stood and looked back, and the walls looked to me like a prison instead of a sanctuary.

And I'm asking, what are you going to do about it? Are you going to fall apart or be the woman God created you to be?

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

Shut one eye then the other Peek into every corner of yourself See that there are no nails no thieves See that there are no cuckoo's eggs Shut then the other eye Squat and jump Jump high high high On top of yourself Fall then with all your weight Fall for days on end deep deep deep To the bottom of your abyss Who doesn't break into pieces Who remains whole gets up whole Plays