Quotes About Self-discovery

Sooner or later, you have to shed your family's expectations and run the race on your own.

May turns to me with purpose, stretches intimately close as if she plans to impart a secret. "A woman's past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her OWN music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things.

The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place. —Barbara DeAngelis (Left by

Sometimes people don't know their dreams until they're in it. Other times, their dreams escape them because they are too busy being busy.

What my parents kept failing to understand was how happy I was when I was alone with my books. There was no pressure to perform or be cute, and books never disappoint — unless, of course, you've chosen a bad one. But then, you can always put it down and pick up another one without any repercussions.

Education isn't for getting a job. It's about developing yourself as a human being.

She was, she realized, the unhappy possessor

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

awkwardness or reservation. When had that stopped? They

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

I think, How small my life seemed then. How little I wanted for myself. How little I expected of myself and those who claimed to love me.

didn't it ever occur to me that what got me here could be the same thing that would make me do well?

I want to ask him if he thinks I can get used to being seen like this, being loved like this. I want to ask him why I can be myself around him. Why I still belong to myself around him.

Learn how to be your own heroine, so you too can find your own hero." Right, because why would you want to spend time learning how to be your own heroine if not for the sole purpose of ensnaring a hero?

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.

Be careful who you pretend to be. You might become it.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

The whole secret may be summarized in these four words: "Inflame thyself in praying." —ALEISTER CROWLEY38

For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is greatest. There there occurs the emergence of his existential subject, finding out for himself that he has to decide for himself what he is to make of himself.

Everything I wanted before, I want twice as much now. And that doesn't mean material things; it means to explore more, to think more. Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.

When I face myself, I go, "You have a fear of really being on your own. So you know what? That's what we're gonna do right now."

People used to believe their life--or at least their life as a performer--was over at 28 or some ungodly age! God, when I think of myself back then, I had no idea who I was. I think I'm barely getting that under control now.