Quotes About Self-discovery

If someone has been trying to show you something about yourself and you continue to fight it, maybe it's time to acknowledge that you might be deceived.

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

Your calling is more about who you are becoming than what you are doing. Let

But ignoring the tough stuff doesn't make it go away. It just allows it to fester. Maybe you need to start dealing with the scary stuff, and maybe you need the help of a professional counselor to do that. Maybe you have pain from your childhood that you've buried or locked away, something you need to deal with. Please do. Don't let that stuff control you any longer.

Some of us are not meant to cowboy-up

He said that it's like losing a part of yourself, but worse because we're left with who we are after, and sometimes we don't recognize that person.

There is no shame in it, becoming what your nature says you must be.

Everyone deserves to walk their own path.

Find out who you are, and live that life.

No deberías querer ser igual que todo el mundo. Entonces no serías tú misma".

I mean Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I lost myself. In between." "Oh," I said, and then I just sat there, because something about that idea—that you could be one person in one moment and then wake up and be completely different—punched me in the gut.

We're all afraid of being alone, but perhaps the thing you fear the most -not having a boyfriend- may be the thing that will give you the independence you need in order to find real love.

People don't change that much. Instead of trying to put in what God left out, try drawing out what God left in!

Life is the literary result of my passionate love affair between self and the universe...

To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.

She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.

The interest I felt in certain guys then confused me, because it wasn't romantic, but I wasn't sure what else it might be. But now I know: I wanted to take up people's time making jokes, to tease the dean in front of the entire school, to call him by a nickname. What I wanted was to be a cocky high-school boy, so fucking sure of my place in the world.

She knew he cared for her... but that it didn't matter. They each had to follow their own road.

If there was a free-floating feeling, I took it on and tried to work it out.

But doing others' work for them, even emotional work, robs them of the right to feel their feelings and heal their own pain and issues. We can only learn from our own problems; we can heal only issues that are our own. Think about how different you'd feel if you were free of all those shoulds and instead focused on your own coulds. That's the goal of establishing the correct energetic boundaries.

Now commit to noticing, supporting, and following your own feelings and beliefs.

If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you will kill you.

Beneath the surface there is a deeper and vastly more authentic Self, but its presence is usually veiled by the clamor of the smaller "I" with its

Find the place where your feet know how to walk / And follow your own trail home." The way to your heart begins with your feet on the ground, quietly but intensely present.