Quotes About Self-discovery

I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

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.

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

Gather up your courage like an armful of free clothes at a McQueen sample sale and follow your inner voice wherever it takes you.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.

In the final analysis courage is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence, to the shocks which it is necessary to bear for the sake of realizing one's own nature.

Only when you know who you are will you be able to find the courage to do what drives you-with integrity and grace.

Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be.

Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.

To ignite your confidence and reclaim your courage, you must step into the highest vision of who you are. The only way to do this is to make the journey back into the arms of the Divine.

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.

Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

Most people believe vulnerability is weakness. But really vulnerability is Courage. We must ask ourselves...are we willing to show up and be seen.

Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.

All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)

You're demonstrating a courage that most people can't even fathom: giving it all away in order to have yourself

To live with courage, purpose, and connection - to be the person whom we long to be - we must again be vulnerable. We must ... show up, and let ourselves be seen.

Know yourself. Be authentic. Have courage.