Quotes About Self-discovery

To all of the people along the way who hurt me, lied to me, betrayed me and broke my heart... You forced me to see the change I needed in my life and gave me the determination, motivation and a belief that I needed to change. You gave me more than you could ever take from me, so thank you!

The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as youve never explored before, what human nature is like.

She might not do it tonight, and she might not do it with that French boy, but she was going to get laid, and soon, because she was forty-three years old and she damn well needed it.

In his eyes was everything she'd ever wanted as a girl, everything she'd given up on years before. Emma had grown weary of waiting for rescue. She'd had to rescue herself and she would never forget that.

have learned that the source of joy is not to be found in another person and we should not look for someone

I was excited because getting to know oneself was exciting. I was beginning to believe that I had the power to influence my own personality.

Our own ways always circle around back to ourselves. But when God leads our way, then it leads to him. God's ways lead to God. God leads us through happiness or unhappiness—always only to God. By this we recognize God's ways.

For coffee-stained girls in libraries.

The boy in this mirror was steel and frost and a bloodied knife. And he wasn't afraid of anything.

I have always tried to be all the tings my mother wanted me to be; ever the lady, always polite, never inconsiderate. I run my business the way my mother ran our house - everything just so. In some ways I am my mother - full of life when I'm happy, very cold when I'm angry. People say I look just like her. I'll tell you a secret: every time I pass a mirror, I gasp. I wonder if there's more here than meets the eye." - Karen, thirty-nine.

The only problem with not talking to oneself was that oneself was the most fascinating conversational partner one could imagine. Nobody had more patience in listening to one than oneself, and while nobody knew one better than oneself, nobody misunderstood one more than oneself.

Some animals could see in the dark, but it was only humans who deliberately sought out every possible route into the darkness of our own interiors.

No, just as my abused generation was divided before birth, so was I divided on birth, delivered into a postpartum world where hardly anyone accepted me for who I was, but only ever bullied me into choosing between my two sides. This was not simply hard to do no, it was truly impossible, for how I choose me againse myself?

Art seems to be the only place we can liberate our many selves.

I'm not a mouse or a tigress, she thought, I'm a hedgehog.

I have learned to follow another voice, to be alone and to understand things - maybe to be alone and to be misunderstood.

Voices Voices in my head, Chanting, 'Kisses. Bread. Prove yourself. Fight. Shove. Learn. Earn. Look for love', Drown a lesser voice, Silent now of choice: 'Breathe in peace, and be Still, for once, like me'.

Being alone by oneself is much better than being alone with another.

One of the keys to be happy is to always get in touch with oneself.

People are sometimes not ready to accept what they are able to do something or not.

Solitude is the only thing that will never help you make your character.

To the person who thinks the world is full of fools, look in the mirror.

You are all you have to offer the world. Know yourself, love yourself and be yourself.

You can't really know yourself until you discover how corrupt you are.