“Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and sometimes you have no idea where to go or what to do. Lots of times people just let themselves get lost, dropping into a wide open, huge abyss. But that's why we have to keep trying. We have to push through all that hurts us, work past all our memories that are haunting us. Sometimes the things that hurt us are the things that make us strongest. A life without experience, in my opinion, is no life at all. And that's why I tell everyone that, even when it hurts, never stop yourself from living.”
― Alysha Speer
“You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing to come alive again. It's a place for disappearing, you'd said, a place for getting lost... and for getting found.
I'll take you there, you'd said.
And I could say that I agreed.”
― Lucy Christopher, Stolen: A Letter to My Captor
“Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow pace in a dark cocoon of loneliness so you can fly like wind, like wings, when you awaken.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Dangerous Angels
“Don't worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.”
― Jason Evert
“You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.”
― Charles de Lint, Dreams Underfoot
“When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
“Whatever it takes to find the real you, don't be daunted if the rest of the world looks on in shock.”
― Stephen Richards
“Fer in our dreams we find ourselves. Who we were. Who we are. Who we can become. Sleep. Dream.”
― Moira Young, Rebel Heart
“I don’t want to be just one thing. I want to be brave and selfless and intelligent and honest and kind.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent
“Dig deep in your soul to recover the person you once were before you became what someone else wanted.”
― Anurag Prakash Ray
“You shouldn't find someone else until you find yourself.”
― Will Koz
“The Truth is, we all get lost as we try to find our way. Perhaps the key is to stop, take a look around and enjoy the scenery as we go.”
― JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon, Getting Lost
“There will always be those who want to tell you who you are based on your name or the blood in your veins. Do not let other people decide who you are. Decide for yourself.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
“Discovering what you want out of life is hard, having the courage to full fill it is even harder!”
― Stephanie Kingsmore
“Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“Find yourself first…like yourself first…love yourself FIRST…& friendship & love will naturally find YOU.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Think about it this way: While being married is about becoming the WIFE you are meant to be, being single allows you to focus on becoming the WOMAN you were born to be.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“There’s something really cool about knowing that your destiny is SO big that you’re not meant to share it with anyone. At least not yet.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are…and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“Happily Single is holding out for the best and letting go of the rest. It’s saying “I will and I can” to YOURSELF before you say “I do” to someone else.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“In the midst of our struggle to find out who we are, there are infinite possibilities for beauty, and hope, and wonder, and love.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“What is really scary is running naked inside yourself, revealing the real you.”
― Wes Adamson
“The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“Starting a new way is never easy so...keep starting until the start sticks.”
― Tim Fargo
“Find out who you are and then follow your heart”
― Kujtim Retkoceri
“Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“Finding her meant that I could move forward unabashedly, without fear of rejection, without the endless need for acceptance from my husband or from anyone else. My worth was decided by me, now.”
― Ariana Carruth, Love for Our Afflictions: Allowing Pain to Pave the
“Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages
“You know who you are you just have to believe it.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Stealing Heaven
While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“If you were not cast into the abyss, you would have never groped, reached as far as you could reach, to grasp for anything that you could possibly touch, anything that you could possibly feel brushing against your fingertips! Funny how in the darkness, we come to find the things that we never saw before all the lights departed! It's like someone needed to turn the lights out, to make us find all the things that we never looked for when the lights were on! And it's in that blackness that we wake up to the true light! My friends, curse not the darkness! It has given you many things!”
― C. JoyBell C.
“Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business
“You can’t label yourself with words, it is what you do everyday that defines you.”
― Raimy Diaz
“You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“You have so mamy different personas. The one i meet in Dublin, the one who speaks on the phone.
There are a few other bonos: the one who writes in the morning, the one who performs in front of crowds, the one who addresses U.S congressmen, and of course the one who now sits on the board of elevation partners.
Of course the same person shelters all those different roles.
All art is an attempt to identify yourself. You try out many different characters on the way to finding the one that most fits you, and therefore is you. I mean, all children do. I'm adolescence, you see them trying out different sides of their personality. So I'm just exploring and trying to find out what I'm capable of.”
― Michka Assayas, Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ~Thomas Szasz, "Personal Conduct," The Second Sin, 1973
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. ~Alan Alda
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be. ~Robert Brault
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. ~Dr. Alexis Carrel
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ~Julien Green
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anaïs Nin
The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose. ~Richard Grant
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
All men should strive
to learn before they die
what they are running from, and to, and why.
~James Thurber
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. ~Michel de Montaigne
If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found. ~Author Unknown
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ~Henry David Thoreau, 1854
It is good to feel lost... because it proves you have a navigational sense of where "Home" is. You know that a place that feels like being found exists. And maybe your current location isn't that place but, Hallelujah, that unsettled, uneasy feeling of lost-ness just brought you closer to it. ~Erika Harris, empathicwriter.com
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. ~Gelett Burgess
Endurance is frequently a form of indecision. ~Elizabeth Bibesco, Haven, 195
Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys. ~Amiel, Journal, 1884
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ~Muhammad Ali
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ~Wallace Stevens
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ~G.K. Chesterton, "The Logic of Elfland," Orthodoxy, 1908
If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. ~Author Unknown
It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. ~K.T. Jong
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ~James Baldwin
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. ~Carol Shields
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution. ~Jo Coudert, Advice From A Failure (Thanks, Elizabeth!)
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~Henry David Thoreau
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. ~William Butler Yeats
If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature. ~Phyllis Battelle
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. ~Timothy Leary
I've left Bethlehem
and I feel free...
I've left the girl I was supposed to be
and some day I'll be born.
~Paula Cole
Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. ~Matthew Arnold, "Self-Dependence," Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems, 1852
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. ~Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. ~Thomas Mann
Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. ~Author Unknown
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. ~Pearl Bailey
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. ~Mark Twain
He who knows others is learned;
He who knows himself is wise.
~Lao-tzu, Tao te Ching
Y]ou must learn what life is now, not from me, but from life itself; but, if you will hear an old man's opinion, I will give it you. If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, supposing you will grow into it as a matter of course by a rule of necessity, in the same way as your body grows old, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man into his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. Go out into life, you will find your chance there, and only there. ~James Anthony Froude,The Nemesis of Faith, 1849, commonly misattributed to Henry David Thoreau
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. ~Alan Watts
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. ~Zen Proverb
We are the products of editing, rather than authorship. ~George Wald, "The Origin of Optical Activity," Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1975
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves. ~Judith Hanson Lasater
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. ~Anaïs Nin
There are... things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Notes from the Underground," 1864
Man is almost mad—mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be there because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop.... ~Osho
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. ~Lucille Ball
Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music. ~Mac Anderson
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. ~Anna Quindlen
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. ~St. Augustine
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be. ~Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves. ~Author Unknown
When one feels pulled to do a particular thing, when one has passion for a certain life path, karma is always involved. In such an instance, when the goal is worthy and makes one happy, one should continue on that same life path. Just because the elephant cannot carry you anymore doesn't mean you should give up your goal. Continue down the path that makes you feel fulfilled. Those who continue on an unrewarding path for the sake of only monetary gain are displaying a lack of trust in life. ~Kwan Yin
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life. ~Mike Dolan
The road to self-belief is potholed. ~Nyasha Madavo
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. ~Ben Stein
What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul. ~Victor Hugo
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. ~Buddha
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
"Know thyself?" If I knew myself, I'd run away. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. ~Hugh Prather
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way. ~Robert Brault
You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart. ~George Michael, "Kissing A Fool"
Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully. ~Littlefoot's mother, Land Before Time
Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. ~James A. Michener
It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about. ~Alan Ball,American Beauty, 1999
One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. ~Thomas Carlyle
If you're not a rebel by the age of twenty, you've got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by thirty, you've got no brains. ~Swimming with Sharks, 1994, written & directed by George Huang, spoken by the character Buddy Ackerman played by Kevin Spacey
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~Confucius
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. ~Tom O'Connor
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. ~Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1783
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. ~George Bernard Shaw
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. ~Josephine Hart
God, why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh, lead me to the Beyond within. ~Macrina Wieherkehr
Truth hurts — not the searching after; the running from! ~John Eyberg
Decorate yourself from the inside out. ~Terri Guillemets
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. ~H.W. Shaw
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
My own experience is that everybody is born with a certain talent, and unless he lives that talent to its fullest, something in him will remain missing. He will go on feeling that somehow something is not there that should be. ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet. ~Neil Simon
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. ~Madeleine L'Engle
Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth. ~Ralph Parlette
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another. ~Arthur Christopher Benson
When your heart speaks, take good notes. ~Judith Campbell
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile. ~Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1893
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. ~Erich Fromm
One must know one's own secret. ~Swami Nithyananda
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. ~Robert Neelly Bellah, Habits of the Heart, 1985
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. ~Nicolas Chamfort
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change. ~Richard Bach
The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally. ~Samuel H. Hammond
We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses — secret senses, sixth senses, if you will — equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded. ~Oliver Sacks
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it. ~Elizabeth A. Behnke
There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
God hides things by putting them all around us. ~Author Unknown
I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience — and laughter. ~Susan M. Watkins
Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out. ~Bob Moawad
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle`
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.”
― Gerard Way
“In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.
But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
“Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.”
― Joss Whedon
“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars andbooks; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian
“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
― Maya Angelou
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung
“At the center of your being
you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know what you want.”
― Lao Tzu
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
― Nelson Mandela
“It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.”
― Betty Friedan
“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
― Rumi
“It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
― Aristotle
“The only journey is the one within.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
“It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
― Bob Dylan
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.”
― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
― John Irving, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
“I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that's what a comet is like, you see, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe! But it's only when it ventures too close to our sun or to other stars that it releases the blazing "tail" behind it and shoots brazen through the heavens! And meteors become sucked into our atmosphere before they burst like firecrackers and realize that they're shooting stars! That's why I enjoy taking myself out of my own element, my own comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the unknown. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off of me! I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in me... I see myself. I'm a shooting star. A meteor shower. But I'm not going to die out. I guess I'm more like a comet then. I'm just going to keep on coming back.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”
― Bob Moawad
“If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”
― Amit Ray
“Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.”
― Hermann Hesse
“The Way to do is to be.”
― Lao Tzu
“Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. [...] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love. ”
― Michael Jackson, Dancing the Dream
“I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
“It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!”
― Ralph Ellison
“It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!”
― Robert T. Kiosaki
“The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.”
― Floriano Martins
“Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.”
― Alan Alda
“The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, thework you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.”
― Eckhart Tolle
“I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.”
― David Levithan, Wide Awake
“the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
“You find out who you are by figuring out who and what you're not”
― Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
“It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life
“Spending time looking for what is missing in your life is futile; if you fail to look within yourself. When we challenge everything we believe we are, we reveal that which we never knew about our own selves.”
― Nicolas G. Janovsky, Gay: A New Path Forward
“It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here.”
― Luci Swindoll, I Married Adventure
“Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.”
― E.L. Konigsburg
“The most adventurous journey to embark on; is the journey to yourself, the most exciting thing to discover; is who you really are, the most treasured pieces that you can find; are all the pieces of you, the most special portrait you can recognize; is the portrait of your soul.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Your inner strength is your outer foundation”
― Allan Rufus
“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff
“It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.”
― David Levithan, Wide Awake
“I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.”
― Rabih Alameddine, I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
“Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
“You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the more things change,the more they don't stay the same. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once - but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time.”
― David Levithan, Wide Awake
“Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you...”
― Banana Yoshimoto
“To be calm and compassionate you need courage and conviction.”
― Solange nicole
“Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.”
― David Levithan, Wide Awake
“The need to prove who you are will vanish once you know who you are.”
― Danielle Pierre, Just Make It Happen!
“I also believe that when people are going through difficult situations in life... it causes them to search a lot more. They search life and search their soul. When you’re searching, you’re suddenly a lot more open to the world around you, to the possibilities, to things you never thought about before. — When you’re happy, you don’t question the world so much. When you’re lost, you question everything. The very reason why it is so essential to human self-discovery”
― Cecelia Ahern
“We stay busy so we don't have to admit we don't have all the answers. After long enough with our constant distractions, we end our search for them. And God. Soon enough, we'll all come to realize we can't be God. We'll settle for telling ourselves we can. Or we'll just make one up.”
― Brian Krans, A Constant Suicide
“She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle
“I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with.”
― David Levithan, Wide Awake
“Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.”
― Amit Ray
“Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris
“It is only when you accept how different you all are, that you will be able to see how much the same you all are. Don't expect anybody to be the same as you, then you will see that you are in many ways the same as everybody.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“I don't want someone to believe my lies, I need someone to accept my truths.”
― Kellie Elmore
“self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“If you think you’re good people, and if you are, how would you know? Is it something you always knew? Or was it something you found? Some people are naturally good at it […]. Is it worth trying to be something you’re not? Just because it’s right?”
― Jen Wang, Koko Be Good
“Do not limit yourself to your own preconceptions of yourself, but throw yourself out onto a blank page that you haven't written on yet, and see what you find out about you, see what story unfolds, see what happens! I always do this, and sometimes it can be very frightening! To very often have a blank page with nothing written on it yet! I feel as though I am a soul with a single covering–my body of skin– and that's the only thing between me on the inside and the rest of the world! It's quite frightening to begin each day on a blank page, forgetting your own preconceptions of yourself and allowing your mind to embrace the new! It is like meeting yourself for the first time, over and over again!”
― C. JoyBell C.
“Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style
“Life is a valuable and unique opportunity
to discover who you are.
But it seems as soon as you near
answering that age-old question,
something unexpected always happens
to alter your course.
And who it is you thought you were
suddenly changes.
Then comes the frustrating realization
that no matter how long life endures,
no matter how many experiences
are muddled through in this existence,
you may never really be able
to answer the question…..
Who am I?
Because the answer, like the seasons,
constantly, subtly, inevitably changes.
And who it is you are today,
is not the same person you will be tomorrow.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Dawn and Rescue
“I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.”
― Hugo Hamilton, The Sailor in the Wardrobe
“The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.”
― David Levithan, Wide Awake
“A lot of things happen in our lives without any apparent justification. but whatever happens to us,takes us one step ahead in the path of self realisation.
the truth is we all are travellers in the life's eternal journey, to meet for a short while,to care and share but we tend to forget that nothings lasts forever.
if only we could cultivate a sense of detachment,life would have been much easier.”
― Chitralekha Paul, Delayed Monsoon
“A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there.”
― Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room
“Time stretches and calms, but still we reach, for we belonged then. We want to know. Sometimes that knowledge is painful, or inconvenient, or even damning. But it is essential. It exposes us for what we have been, and can be.”
― Mark Mustian, The Gendarme
“Though it may be interesting to know how many hairs there are on the human head, or how the giant red spot on the surface of Jupiter was formed, the real truths we are interested in are those about ourselves.”
― Stephen Richards
“التفكير هو الذي جعل الإنسان يتطور. فالإنسان تطور عندما أدرك ما الذي حوله. عندما فهم. وحلل. وربط واكتشف. وأول ما اكتشف: ذاته..”
― أنيس منصور, الذين هاجروا
“A wise man travels to discover himself.”
― James Russell Lowell
“History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environment, but himself; and this has added, so to speak, a new dimension to reason and a new dimension to history.”
― Edward Hallett Carr, What Is History?
“If you walk 100 miles into the life you don't want. Often, you must walk those same 100 miles to get out of that life. This is the answer to why the journey to fulfillment is often so difficult. However, if you can find a shortcut, a new path, you can get to the life you want much quicker. This is the premise of personal development, self-improvement and self-discovery..!”
― James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
“Gratification comes when you help someone else.”
― Trenice Carter
“But sometimes you have to make a decision with your heart instead of your head, and that’s what I did. I know I’ve made the right decision even if it takes my brain a little while to catch up to my heart.”
― Marie Landry, Blue Sky Days
“A human being who trades away individuallity for conformity is nothing but a slave.”
― Auliq Ice
“Life is one big lesson, you learn as you go.”
― Auliq Ice
“Money should be ones demand and command One should not become slave of Money”
― Auliq Ice
“Gold is pure, but the mind is more precious, unfortunately the mind doesn't always realize how is precious it is,
that it ends up becoming the slave to make gold, without even knowing what it is choosing.”
― Auliq Ice
“Nothing ends with your voice 'it's over' , because you are not the ruler of your life instead you are the slave of your life. It continues, you wish or you may not. So hug the life as it's your partner at all moments. Sure it'll give you what you deserve for.”
― Auliq Ice
“Teaching is a noble profession, As a matter of fact majority-learn by their own experiences, situations, believes, understanding capacity, and IQ levels.”
― Auliq Ice
“Laughing is a sin. Laugh when you are a slave shows your disobedience to your master.”
― Auliq Ice
“I don’t want normal though, or at least what normal has been for me the last nineteen years. I’m tired of my version of normal.”
― Marie Landry, Blue Sky Days
“I am not your maid, nor your slave.Paid or unpaid.I will only be me and that's all I will ever be.”
― Auliq Ice
“If you care about what people think about you ..! you will end up being their slave”
― Auliq Ice
“Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your name.”
― Charlotte Eriksson
“It was frightening to lose the person she had always been; but the joy she felt at emerging from her cocoon, even if it had taken thirty years, was so great she wanted to sing it out to the whole world.”
― Bella Andre, Take Me
“If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“Our duty is wakefulness, the fundamental condition of life itself. The unseen, the unheard, the untouchable is what weaves the fabric of our see-able universe together.”
― Robin Craig Clark, The Garden
“The benefit of personal growth and self-discovery is that we become better human beings with the strength to endure and carry on, and then we may experience something magical when we begin to reach out to others. We discover a feeling that is so rewarding and fulfilling: that fact that we can make a difference. Here is to your willingness to begin with making a difference with yourself!
Michael James”
― Michael James, Discovering Michael: An Inspirational Guide to Personal Growth & Self-Discovery
“It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.”
― Charlotte Eriksson
“Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I have more or less constantly been on my way, on the road, always leaving and never arriving, which also means leaving people. I’ve loved and lost and I have regrets and I miss and no matter how many times you leave, start over, achieve success or travel places it’s other people that matter. People, friends, family, lovers, strangers – they will forever stay with you, even if only through memory. I’ve grown to appreciate people to the deepest core and I’m trying to learn how to tell people what I want to tell them when I have the chance, before it’s too late. …”
― Charlotte Eriksson
“I wish you all
an ego free
driven day!”
― Allan Rufus, The Master's Sacred Knowledge
“Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired. Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience”
― Ikechukwu Joseph, Discovering Yourself
“The day you start being serious about what you want to Achieve is the day when what you desire to achieve craves for you as well.
Because nothing in the world lasts for you if you are paying half attention towards what you are doing for it.”
― Auliq Ice
“I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.”
― John Banville, The Untouchable
“The simple act of putting your truth on paper, only you and your thoughts, is one of the most powerful exercises you can do.”
― Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
“A journey through nature is always a road that leads to self-discovery.”
― Toni Sorenson
“Every new self-discovery leads you to more wholeness, opens your heart, makes you humble, and a better person to serve and love others." Page 8”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
“The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.”
― Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
“Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our 'self', others and life itself.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“I sometimes marvel at how far I’ve come - blissful, even, in the knowledge that I am slowly becoming a well-evolved human being - only to have the illusion shattered by an episode of bad behaviour that contradicts the new and reinforces the old. At these junctures of self-reflection, I ask the question: “are all my years of hard work unraveling before my eyes, or am I just having an episode?” For the sake of personal growth and the pursuit of equanimity, I choose the latter and accept that, on this journey of evolution, I may not encounter just one bad day, but a group of many.”
― B.G. Bowers, Death and Life
“Sometimes I come up here at night, even when I'm not fixing the clocks, just to look at the city. I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is one big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
“Stay with and pursue your dreams, and
history will tell your stories in golden,
glossy and embossed shining foils”
― Ikechukwu Joseph, Discovering Yourself
“The failure of something it doesn't mean is the end of it,its a begging of a challenge”
― Auliq Ice
“You will never be the best at anything, if you never do your best at something.”
― Auliq Ice
“Slavery was never abolished. Why? Because you are still a slave to the biased opinions of a person whom you know not.
You claim otherwise, yet your clothes are of a trend, your speech of what's acceptable in a society of ignorance.
You have choice yet you do not exercise its freedom, because you are a slave to the ways of the world.”
― Auliq Ice
“Hard work does not go unnoticed,
and someday the rewards will follow”
― Allan Rufus, The Master's Sacred Knowledge
“Note and Quote to Self – What you think, say and do!
Your life mainly consists of 3 things!
What you think,
What you say and
What you do!
So always be very conscious of what you are co-creating!”
― Allan Rufus, The Master's Sacred Knowledge
“NOTE TO SELF – BOOMERANG EFFECT
My words, thoughts and deeds have
a boomerang effect.
So be-careful what you send out!”
― Allan Rufus, The Master's Sacred Knowledge
“I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that mydestiny is to travel...”
― Ernesto Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
“Quotes and notes to self – Find your inner peace!
Don’t
be caught up in your outer world.
Pay
greater attention to your inner world”
― Allan Rufus
“Note to Self – Thoughts design my energy!
My
thoughts
WILL
design the energy
that moves
me!”
― Allan Rufus
“Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential!”
― Allan Rufus, The Master's Sacred Knowledge
“In the beginning, it is difficult and even painful to see the faults in yourself, the flaws in your soul, the error of your ways. But I have come to love the moments when I see my flaws and I spot my errors! It is one of the most beautiful things, really! Because it is when we see our own flaws and our own errors that we can find the opposite of those things! It is when we see our own flaws and our own errors that we can see that there is so much more room to become better! And so I have come to actually rejoice when I find something wrong with me! And I know when it’s really wrong because I can see it and I can feel it in my heart both at the same time— it is a revelation. It’s not something that comes from any external source; but it is my own spirit and the voice of God revealing these things to me, unfolding them, rolling them out of a silken cloth at my feet. And I smile.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“Sometimes our emotions rule us. How we handle the consequences . . . defines us.”
― Kat Bastion, Forged in Dreams and Magick
“You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.”
― Anne Lamott
“Always do your best to be yourself. Learn to listen to your inner-voice. This is your true authenticity; this is who you really are. Self-discovery of your inner-self is the path to your destiny...”
― James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
“All night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of his own dreams. There we understood that our vocation, our true vocation, was to move for eternity along the roads and seas of the world. Always curious, looking into everything that came before our eyes, sniffing out each corner but only ever faintly--not setting down roots in any land or staying long enough to see the substratum of things the outer limits would suffice.”
― Ernesto Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
“A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Everything on earth has a purpose to fulfill, though it may look worthless, but time will tell if god did a mistake in creating them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
“It is quite interesting to discover who we really are. It might take some time, but eventually we do.”
― Alexandra Kinias, Black Tulips
“Nothing can be more perfect in my world than the imperfection it must match.”
― Leot Felton, The After
“Do not fear emptiness. It is the dwelling place of possibility. Nothing can be added to a vessel that is already full.
~Malachi”
― Stephanie Stamm, A Gift of Wings
“Still, as much as I had experienced, there was more waiting to be found. I had started out with a feeling of burning dullness and desperation. Now I was filled with a thrill and expectation of new discovery.”
― Peter Jenkins, A Walk Across America
“Every problem has one immediate cause, many remote causes, long term and short term effects”
― Ikechukwu Joseph, Repositioning Yourself for Greater Success
“We all change, and we all feel rudderless at times. there is nothing wrong in allowing yourself to drift.
~Zeke”
― Stephanie Stamm, A Gift of Wings
“You need to understand your potentials to transform it. look in to Yourself, upwards to God then outwards to your environ”
― Ikechukwu Joseph, Discovering Yourself
“I never understood that everyone feels lost temporarily when they want to change their world and the state of their life”
― Priya Kumar, The Perfect World
“The thing about traveling alone, is that you run into your insecurities and fears times ten the normal! You run into all the good things and all the bad things about yourself on a daily basis, and are allowed the opportunity to truly become your own friend. Traveling alone is a learning process; some people travel for leisure, I travel to run into myself!”
― C. JoyBell C.
“Mind is the lock. Knowing is the key. Unlock the mind and open your heart.”
― Robin Craig Clark, Voyager: The Art of Pure Awareness
“Within you, you will find everything you need to be complete.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
“There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“Sometimes it takes falling apart to see exactly how or what loosened the mortar. Sometimes we find we are responsible for the how & the what. As unpleasant as it iswhen it happens, one cannot help but appreciate these times for what you learn serves as a beacon. Of course this is only half the battle. Which means you're already half way there.”
― Colleen Truscott Fry
“We spend our lives asking the question, ‘What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?’ But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our lives in the pursuit of discovering who we are and what we were created to do.”
― Elizabeth Grace Saunders, The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, Author of So Good They Can't Ignore You
“Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood.”
― Amy Denise
“Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“Learn to be brave and adventurous because you’ll never discover your place in the world, if you’re too afraid to leave your own backyard.”
― Nina Guilbeau
“All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.”
― Ralph Ellison
“There are no ordinary people. The blur or everyday reality has created a world in which most of us have forgotten our unique and sacred existence...it is [our] true self, once discovered, that enables us to understand more clearly the nature of our world, and our own existence.”
― Kim Chestney
“You'd be surprised how often you doubt your own sanity when you don't understand your own capacities.”
― K.M. Mac Aulay "Black Anna
“There are times in every person’s life when they feel lonely, isolated, like maybe they don’t belong. For adoptees, this is often exacerbated by the circumstances. Because you were given up, you have a built-in scapegoat; you can blame everything that you feel on the fact that you were adopted. But, I want you to know that this is a fallacy. Finding your biological parents will not fill in the void that you feel. You will get answers to your questions, but no one can fill in the missing pieces except for you. Before you go on a search, take the time to get to know yourself very well. Heal the hurts you’ve experienced. Acknowledge the past and how it has affected you. Become a whole person who is seeking roots, not a damaged person who is seeking fulfillment.”
― Janet Louise Stephenson, Who Gives Up Adorable Little Girls Anyway?
“If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“Make sure your subconscious knows you love it by stroking it until it purrs.”
― Teresa Sue McAdams
“I shall now call myself;
I shall now call.
In the forest of my heart, seeing myself,
I shall love myself and love myself.
I shall be my own quest,
My absolute wealth.
The journey of light supreme will commence
In the heart of freedom.”
― Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey
“Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I know what to do to get it. I will provide for myself.”
― Marlene Van Niekerk, Agaat
“Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.”
― David Levitham
― Alysha Speer
“You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing to come alive again. It's a place for disappearing, you'd said, a place for getting lost... and for getting found.
I'll take you there, you'd said.
And I could say that I agreed.”
― Lucy Christopher, Stolen: A Letter to My Captor
“Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You must grow at a slow pace in a dark cocoon of loneliness so you can fly like wind, like wings, when you awaken.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Dangerous Angels
“Don't worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.”
― Jason Evert
“You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.”
― Charles de Lint, Dreams Underfoot
“When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
“Whatever it takes to find the real you, don't be daunted if the rest of the world looks on in shock.”
― Stephen Richards
“Fer in our dreams we find ourselves. Who we were. Who we are. Who we can become. Sleep. Dream.”
― Moira Young, Rebel Heart
“I don’t want to be just one thing. I want to be brave and selfless and intelligent and honest and kind.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent
“Dig deep in your soul to recover the person you once were before you became what someone else wanted.”
― Anurag Prakash Ray
“You shouldn't find someone else until you find yourself.”
― Will Koz
“The Truth is, we all get lost as we try to find our way. Perhaps the key is to stop, take a look around and enjoy the scenery as we go.”
― JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon, Getting Lost
“There will always be those who want to tell you who you are based on your name or the blood in your veins. Do not let other people decide who you are. Decide for yourself.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
“Discovering what you want out of life is hard, having the courage to full fill it is even harder!”
― Stephanie Kingsmore
“Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“Find yourself first…like yourself first…love yourself FIRST…& friendship & love will naturally find YOU.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Think about it this way: While being married is about becoming the WIFE you are meant to be, being single allows you to focus on becoming the WOMAN you were born to be.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“There’s something really cool about knowing that your destiny is SO big that you’re not meant to share it with anyone. At least not yet.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are…and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“Happily Single is holding out for the best and letting go of the rest. It’s saying “I will and I can” to YOURSELF before you say “I do” to someone else.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“In the midst of our struggle to find out who we are, there are infinite possibilities for beauty, and hope, and wonder, and love.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“What is really scary is running naked inside yourself, revealing the real you.”
― Wes Adamson
“The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“Starting a new way is never easy so...keep starting until the start sticks.”
― Tim Fargo
“Find out who you are and then follow your heart”
― Kujtim Retkoceri
“Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“Finding her meant that I could move forward unabashedly, without fear of rejection, without the endless need for acceptance from my husband or from anyone else. My worth was decided by me, now.”
― Ariana Carruth, Love for Our Afflictions: Allowing Pain to Pave the
“Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages
“You know who you are you just have to believe it.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Stealing Heaven
While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“If you were not cast into the abyss, you would have never groped, reached as far as you could reach, to grasp for anything that you could possibly touch, anything that you could possibly feel brushing against your fingertips! Funny how in the darkness, we come to find the things that we never saw before all the lights departed! It's like someone needed to turn the lights out, to make us find all the things that we never looked for when the lights were on! And it's in that blackness that we wake up to the true light! My friends, curse not the darkness! It has given you many things!”
― C. JoyBell C.
“Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business
“You can’t label yourself with words, it is what you do everyday that defines you.”
― Raimy Diaz
“You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“You have so mamy different personas. The one i meet in Dublin, the one who speaks on the phone.
There are a few other bonos: the one who writes in the morning, the one who performs in front of crowds, the one who addresses U.S congressmen, and of course the one who now sits on the board of elevation partners.
Of course the same person shelters all those different roles.
All art is an attempt to identify yourself. You try out many different characters on the way to finding the one that most fits you, and therefore is you. I mean, all children do. I'm adolescence, you see them trying out different sides of their personality. So I'm just exploring and trying to find out what I'm capable of.”
― Michka Assayas, Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ~Thomas Szasz, "Personal Conduct," The Second Sin, 1973
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. ~Alan Alda
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be. ~Robert Brault
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. ~Dr. Alexis Carrel
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ~Julien Green
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anaïs Nin
The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose. ~Richard Grant
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
All men should strive
to learn before they die
what they are running from, and to, and why.
~James Thurber
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. ~Michel de Montaigne
If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found. ~Author Unknown
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ~Henry David Thoreau, 1854
It is good to feel lost... because it proves you have a navigational sense of where "Home" is. You know that a place that feels like being found exists. And maybe your current location isn't that place but, Hallelujah, that unsettled, uneasy feeling of lost-ness just brought you closer to it. ~Erika Harris, empathicwriter.com
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. ~Gelett Burgess
Endurance is frequently a form of indecision. ~Elizabeth Bibesco, Haven, 195
Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys. ~Amiel, Journal, 1884
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ~Muhammad Ali
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ~Wallace Stevens
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ~G.K. Chesterton, "The Logic of Elfland," Orthodoxy, 1908
If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. ~Author Unknown
It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. ~K.T. Jong
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ~James Baldwin
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. ~Carol Shields
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution. ~Jo Coudert, Advice From A Failure (Thanks, Elizabeth!)
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~Henry David Thoreau
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. ~William Butler Yeats
If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature. ~Phyllis Battelle
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. ~Timothy Leary
I've left Bethlehem
and I feel free...
I've left the girl I was supposed to be
and some day I'll be born.
~Paula Cole
Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. ~Matthew Arnold, "Self-Dependence," Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems, 1852
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. ~Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. ~Thomas Mann
Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. ~Author Unknown
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. ~Pearl Bailey
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. ~Mark Twain
He who knows others is learned;
He who knows himself is wise.
~Lao-tzu, Tao te Ching
Y]ou must learn what life is now, not from me, but from life itself; but, if you will hear an old man's opinion, I will give it you. If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, supposing you will grow into it as a matter of course by a rule of necessity, in the same way as your body grows old, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man into his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. Go out into life, you will find your chance there, and only there. ~James Anthony Froude,The Nemesis of Faith, 1849, commonly misattributed to Henry David Thoreau
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. ~Alan Watts
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. ~Zen Proverb
We are the products of editing, rather than authorship. ~George Wald, "The Origin of Optical Activity," Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1975
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves. ~Judith Hanson Lasater
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. ~Anaïs Nin
There are... things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Notes from the Underground," 1864
Man is almost mad—mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be there because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop.... ~Osho
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. ~Lucille Ball
Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music. ~Mac Anderson
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. ~Anna Quindlen
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. ~St. Augustine
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be. ~Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves. ~Author Unknown
When one feels pulled to do a particular thing, when one has passion for a certain life path, karma is always involved. In such an instance, when the goal is worthy and makes one happy, one should continue on that same life path. Just because the elephant cannot carry you anymore doesn't mean you should give up your goal. Continue down the path that makes you feel fulfilled. Those who continue on an unrewarding path for the sake of only monetary gain are displaying a lack of trust in life. ~Kwan Yin
In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life. ~Mike Dolan
The road to self-belief is potholed. ~Nyasha Madavo
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. ~Ben Stein
What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul. ~Victor Hugo
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. ~Buddha
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
"Know thyself?" If I knew myself, I'd run away. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. ~Hugh Prather
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way. ~Robert Brault
You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart. ~George Michael, "Kissing A Fool"
Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully. ~Littlefoot's mother, Land Before Time
Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. ~James A. Michener
It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about. ~Alan Ball,American Beauty, 1999
One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. ~Thomas Carlyle
If you're not a rebel by the age of twenty, you've got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by thirty, you've got no brains. ~Swimming with Sharks, 1994, written & directed by George Huang, spoken by the character Buddy Ackerman played by Kevin Spacey
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~Confucius
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. ~Tom O'Connor
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. ~Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1783
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. ~George Bernard Shaw
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. ~Josephine Hart
God, why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh, lead me to the Beyond within. ~Macrina Wieherkehr
Truth hurts — not the searching after; the running from! ~John Eyberg
Decorate yourself from the inside out. ~Terri Guillemets
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. ~H.W. Shaw
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
My own experience is that everybody is born with a certain talent, and unless he lives that talent to its fullest, something in him will remain missing. He will go on feeling that somehow something is not there that should be. ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet. ~Neil Simon
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. ~Madeleine L'Engle
Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth. ~Ralph Parlette
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another. ~Arthur Christopher Benson
When your heart speaks, take good notes. ~Judith Campbell
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile. ~Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1893
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. ~Erich Fromm
One must know one's own secret. ~Swami Nithyananda
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. ~Robert Neelly Bellah, Habits of the Heart, 1985
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. ~Nicolas Chamfort
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change. ~Richard Bach
The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally. ~Samuel H. Hammond
We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses — secret senses, sixth senses, if you will — equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded. ~Oliver Sacks
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it. ~Elizabeth A. Behnke
There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
God hides things by putting them all around us. ~Author Unknown
I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience — and laughter. ~Susan M. Watkins
Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out. ~Bob Moawad
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle`
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.”
― Gerard Way
“In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.
But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
“Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.”
― Joss Whedon
“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars andbooks; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian
“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
― Maya Angelou
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung
“At the center of your being
you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know what you want.”
― Lao Tzu
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
― Nelson Mandela
“It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.”
― Betty Friedan
“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
― Rumi
“It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
― Aristotle
“The only journey is the one within.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
“It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
― Bob Dylan
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.”
― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
― John Irving, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
“I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that's what a comet is like, you see, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe! But it's only when it ventures too close to our sun or to other stars that it releases the blazing "tail" behind it and shoots brazen through the heavens! And meteors become sucked into our atmosphere before they burst like firecrackers and realize that they're shooting stars! That's why I enjoy taking myself out of my own element, my own comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the unknown. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off of me! I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in me... I see myself. I'm a shooting star. A meteor shower. But I'm not going to die out. I guess I'm more like a comet then. I'm just going to keep on coming back.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”
― Bob Moawad
“If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”
― Amit Ray
“Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.”
― Hermann Hesse
“The Way to do is to be.”
― Lao Tzu
“Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. [...] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love. ”
― Michael Jackson, Dancing the Dream
“I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
“It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!”
― Ralph Ellison
“It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!”
― Robert T. Kiosaki
“The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.”
― Floriano Martins
“Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.”
― Alan Alda
“The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, thework you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.”
― Eckhart Tolle
“I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.”
― David Levithan, Wide Awake
“the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
“You find out who you are by figuring out who and what you're not”
― Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
“It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life
“Spending time looking for what is missing in your life is futile; if you fail to look within yourself. When we challenge everything we believe we are, we reveal that which we never knew about our own selves.”
― Nicolas G. Janovsky, Gay: A New Path Forward
“It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here.”
― Luci Swindoll, I Married Adventure
“Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.”
― E.L. Konigsburg
“The most adventurous journey to embark on; is the journey to yourself, the most exciting thing to discover; is who you really are, the most treasured pieces that you can find; are all the pieces of you, the most special portrait you can recognize; is the portrait of your soul.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Your inner strength is your outer foundation”
― Allan Rufus
“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff
“It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.”
― David Levithan, Wide Awake
“I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.”
― Rabih Alameddine, I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
“Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
“You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the more things change,the more they don't stay the same. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once - but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time.”
― David Levithan, Wide Awake
“Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you...”
― Banana Yoshimoto
“To be calm and compassionate you need courage and conviction.”
― Solange nicole
“Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.”
― David Levithan, Wide Awake
“The need to prove who you are will vanish once you know who you are.”
― Danielle Pierre, Just Make It Happen!
“I also believe that when people are going through difficult situations in life... it causes them to search a lot more. They search life and search their soul. When you’re searching, you’re suddenly a lot more open to the world around you, to the possibilities, to things you never thought about before. — When you’re happy, you don’t question the world so much. When you’re lost, you question everything. The very reason why it is so essential to human self-discovery”
― Cecelia Ahern
“We stay busy so we don't have to admit we don't have all the answers. After long enough with our constant distractions, we end our search for them. And God. Soon enough, we'll all come to realize we can't be God. We'll settle for telling ourselves we can. Or we'll just make one up.”
― Brian Krans, A Constant Suicide
“She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle
“I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent; it just had to be something you lived with.”
― David Levithan, Wide Awake
“Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.”
― Amit Ray
“Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris
“It is only when you accept how different you all are, that you will be able to see how much the same you all are. Don't expect anybody to be the same as you, then you will see that you are in many ways the same as everybody.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“I don't want someone to believe my lies, I need someone to accept my truths.”
― Kellie Elmore
“self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“If you think you’re good people, and if you are, how would you know? Is it something you always knew? Or was it something you found? Some people are naturally good at it […]. Is it worth trying to be something you’re not? Just because it’s right?”
― Jen Wang, Koko Be Good
“Do not limit yourself to your own preconceptions of yourself, but throw yourself out onto a blank page that you haven't written on yet, and see what you find out about you, see what story unfolds, see what happens! I always do this, and sometimes it can be very frightening! To very often have a blank page with nothing written on it yet! I feel as though I am a soul with a single covering–my body of skin– and that's the only thing between me on the inside and the rest of the world! It's quite frightening to begin each day on a blank page, forgetting your own preconceptions of yourself and allowing your mind to embrace the new! It is like meeting yourself for the first time, over and over again!”
― C. JoyBell C.
“Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style
“Life is a valuable and unique opportunity
to discover who you are.
But it seems as soon as you near
answering that age-old question,
something unexpected always happens
to alter your course.
And who it is you thought you were
suddenly changes.
Then comes the frustrating realization
that no matter how long life endures,
no matter how many experiences
are muddled through in this existence,
you may never really be able
to answer the question…..
Who am I?
Because the answer, like the seasons,
constantly, subtly, inevitably changes.
And who it is you are today,
is not the same person you will be tomorrow.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Dawn and Rescue
“I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.”
― Hugo Hamilton, The Sailor in the Wardrobe
“The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.”
― David Levithan, Wide Awake
“A lot of things happen in our lives without any apparent justification. but whatever happens to us,takes us one step ahead in the path of self realisation.
the truth is we all are travellers in the life's eternal journey, to meet for a short while,to care and share but we tend to forget that nothings lasts forever.
if only we could cultivate a sense of detachment,life would have been much easier.”
― Chitralekha Paul, Delayed Monsoon
“A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there.”
― Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room
“Time stretches and calms, but still we reach, for we belonged then. We want to know. Sometimes that knowledge is painful, or inconvenient, or even damning. But it is essential. It exposes us for what we have been, and can be.”
― Mark Mustian, The Gendarme
“Though it may be interesting to know how many hairs there are on the human head, or how the giant red spot on the surface of Jupiter was formed, the real truths we are interested in are those about ourselves.”
― Stephen Richards
“التفكير هو الذي جعل الإنسان يتطور. فالإنسان تطور عندما أدرك ما الذي حوله. عندما فهم. وحلل. وربط واكتشف. وأول ما اكتشف: ذاته..”
― أنيس منصور, الذين هاجروا
“A wise man travels to discover himself.”
― James Russell Lowell
“History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environment, but himself; and this has added, so to speak, a new dimension to reason and a new dimension to history.”
― Edward Hallett Carr, What Is History?
“If you walk 100 miles into the life you don't want. Often, you must walk those same 100 miles to get out of that life. This is the answer to why the journey to fulfillment is often so difficult. However, if you can find a shortcut, a new path, you can get to the life you want much quicker. This is the premise of personal development, self-improvement and self-discovery..!”
― James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
“Gratification comes when you help someone else.”
― Trenice Carter
“But sometimes you have to make a decision with your heart instead of your head, and that’s what I did. I know I’ve made the right decision even if it takes my brain a little while to catch up to my heart.”
― Marie Landry, Blue Sky Days
“A human being who trades away individuallity for conformity is nothing but a slave.”
― Auliq Ice
“Life is one big lesson, you learn as you go.”
― Auliq Ice
“Money should be ones demand and command One should not become slave of Money”
― Auliq Ice
“Gold is pure, but the mind is more precious, unfortunately the mind doesn't always realize how is precious it is,
that it ends up becoming the slave to make gold, without even knowing what it is choosing.”
― Auliq Ice
“Nothing ends with your voice 'it's over' , because you are not the ruler of your life instead you are the slave of your life. It continues, you wish or you may not. So hug the life as it's your partner at all moments. Sure it'll give you what you deserve for.”
― Auliq Ice
“Teaching is a noble profession, As a matter of fact majority-learn by their own experiences, situations, believes, understanding capacity, and IQ levels.”
― Auliq Ice
“Laughing is a sin. Laugh when you are a slave shows your disobedience to your master.”
― Auliq Ice
“I don’t want normal though, or at least what normal has been for me the last nineteen years. I’m tired of my version of normal.”
― Marie Landry, Blue Sky Days
“I am not your maid, nor your slave.Paid or unpaid.I will only be me and that's all I will ever be.”
― Auliq Ice
“If you care about what people think about you ..! you will end up being their slave”
― Auliq Ice
“Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your name.”
― Charlotte Eriksson
“It was frightening to lose the person she had always been; but the joy she felt at emerging from her cocoon, even if it had taken thirty years, was so great she wanted to sing it out to the whole world.”
― Bella Andre, Take Me
“If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“Our duty is wakefulness, the fundamental condition of life itself. The unseen, the unheard, the untouchable is what weaves the fabric of our see-able universe together.”
― Robin Craig Clark, The Garden
“The benefit of personal growth and self-discovery is that we become better human beings with the strength to endure and carry on, and then we may experience something magical when we begin to reach out to others. We discover a feeling that is so rewarding and fulfilling: that fact that we can make a difference. Here is to your willingness to begin with making a difference with yourself!
Michael James”
― Michael James, Discovering Michael: An Inspirational Guide to Personal Growth & Self-Discovery
“It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.”
― Charlotte Eriksson
“Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I have more or less constantly been on my way, on the road, always leaving and never arriving, which also means leaving people. I’ve loved and lost and I have regrets and I miss and no matter how many times you leave, start over, achieve success or travel places it’s other people that matter. People, friends, family, lovers, strangers – they will forever stay with you, even if only through memory. I’ve grown to appreciate people to the deepest core and I’m trying to learn how to tell people what I want to tell them when I have the chance, before it’s too late. …”
― Charlotte Eriksson
“I wish you all
an ego free
driven day!”
― Allan Rufus, The Master's Sacred Knowledge
“Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired. Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience”
― Ikechukwu Joseph, Discovering Yourself
“The day you start being serious about what you want to Achieve is the day when what you desire to achieve craves for you as well.
Because nothing in the world lasts for you if you are paying half attention towards what you are doing for it.”
― Auliq Ice
“I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.”
― John Banville, The Untouchable
“The simple act of putting your truth on paper, only you and your thoughts, is one of the most powerful exercises you can do.”
― Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
“A journey through nature is always a road that leads to self-discovery.”
― Toni Sorenson
“Every new self-discovery leads you to more wholeness, opens your heart, makes you humble, and a better person to serve and love others." Page 8”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
“The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.”
― Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
“Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our 'self', others and life itself.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“I sometimes marvel at how far I’ve come - blissful, even, in the knowledge that I am slowly becoming a well-evolved human being - only to have the illusion shattered by an episode of bad behaviour that contradicts the new and reinforces the old. At these junctures of self-reflection, I ask the question: “are all my years of hard work unraveling before my eyes, or am I just having an episode?” For the sake of personal growth and the pursuit of equanimity, I choose the latter and accept that, on this journey of evolution, I may not encounter just one bad day, but a group of many.”
― B.G. Bowers, Death and Life
“Sometimes I come up here at night, even when I'm not fixing the clocks, just to look at the city. I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is one big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
“Stay with and pursue your dreams, and
history will tell your stories in golden,
glossy and embossed shining foils”
― Ikechukwu Joseph, Discovering Yourself
“The failure of something it doesn't mean is the end of it,its a begging of a challenge”
― Auliq Ice
“You will never be the best at anything, if you never do your best at something.”
― Auliq Ice
“Slavery was never abolished. Why? Because you are still a slave to the biased opinions of a person whom you know not.
You claim otherwise, yet your clothes are of a trend, your speech of what's acceptable in a society of ignorance.
You have choice yet you do not exercise its freedom, because you are a slave to the ways of the world.”
― Auliq Ice
“Hard work does not go unnoticed,
and someday the rewards will follow”
― Allan Rufus, The Master's Sacred Knowledge
“Note and Quote to Self – What you think, say and do!
Your life mainly consists of 3 things!
What you think,
What you say and
What you do!
So always be very conscious of what you are co-creating!”
― Allan Rufus, The Master's Sacred Knowledge
“NOTE TO SELF – BOOMERANG EFFECT
My words, thoughts and deeds have
a boomerang effect.
So be-careful what you send out!”
― Allan Rufus, The Master's Sacred Knowledge
“I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that mydestiny is to travel...”
― Ernesto Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
“Quotes and notes to self – Find your inner peace!
Don’t
be caught up in your outer world.
Pay
greater attention to your inner world”
― Allan Rufus
“Note to Self – Thoughts design my energy!
My
thoughts
WILL
design the energy
that moves
me!”
― Allan Rufus
“Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential!”
― Allan Rufus, The Master's Sacred Knowledge
“In the beginning, it is difficult and even painful to see the faults in yourself, the flaws in your soul, the error of your ways. But I have come to love the moments when I see my flaws and I spot my errors! It is one of the most beautiful things, really! Because it is when we see our own flaws and our own errors that we can find the opposite of those things! It is when we see our own flaws and our own errors that we can see that there is so much more room to become better! And so I have come to actually rejoice when I find something wrong with me! And I know when it’s really wrong because I can see it and I can feel it in my heart both at the same time— it is a revelation. It’s not something that comes from any external source; but it is my own spirit and the voice of God revealing these things to me, unfolding them, rolling them out of a silken cloth at my feet. And I smile.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“Sometimes our emotions rule us. How we handle the consequences . . . defines us.”
― Kat Bastion, Forged in Dreams and Magick
“You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.”
― Anne Lamott
“Always do your best to be yourself. Learn to listen to your inner-voice. This is your true authenticity; this is who you really are. Self-discovery of your inner-self is the path to your destiny...”
― James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
“All night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of his own dreams. There we understood that our vocation, our true vocation, was to move for eternity along the roads and seas of the world. Always curious, looking into everything that came before our eyes, sniffing out each corner but only ever faintly--not setting down roots in any land or staying long enough to see the substratum of things the outer limits would suffice.”
― Ernesto Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
“A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Everything on earth has a purpose to fulfill, though it may look worthless, but time will tell if god did a mistake in creating them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
“It is quite interesting to discover who we really are. It might take some time, but eventually we do.”
― Alexandra Kinias, Black Tulips
“Nothing can be more perfect in my world than the imperfection it must match.”
― Leot Felton, The After
“Do not fear emptiness. It is the dwelling place of possibility. Nothing can be added to a vessel that is already full.
~Malachi”
― Stephanie Stamm, A Gift of Wings
“Still, as much as I had experienced, there was more waiting to be found. I had started out with a feeling of burning dullness and desperation. Now I was filled with a thrill and expectation of new discovery.”
― Peter Jenkins, A Walk Across America
“Every problem has one immediate cause, many remote causes, long term and short term effects”
― Ikechukwu Joseph, Repositioning Yourself for Greater Success
“We all change, and we all feel rudderless at times. there is nothing wrong in allowing yourself to drift.
~Zeke”
― Stephanie Stamm, A Gift of Wings
“You need to understand your potentials to transform it. look in to Yourself, upwards to God then outwards to your environ”
― Ikechukwu Joseph, Discovering Yourself
“I never understood that everyone feels lost temporarily when they want to change their world and the state of their life”
― Priya Kumar, The Perfect World
“The thing about traveling alone, is that you run into your insecurities and fears times ten the normal! You run into all the good things and all the bad things about yourself on a daily basis, and are allowed the opportunity to truly become your own friend. Traveling alone is a learning process; some people travel for leisure, I travel to run into myself!”
― C. JoyBell C.
“Mind is the lock. Knowing is the key. Unlock the mind and open your heart.”
― Robin Craig Clark, Voyager: The Art of Pure Awareness
“Within you, you will find everything you need to be complete.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
“There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“Sometimes it takes falling apart to see exactly how or what loosened the mortar. Sometimes we find we are responsible for the how & the what. As unpleasant as it iswhen it happens, one cannot help but appreciate these times for what you learn serves as a beacon. Of course this is only half the battle. Which means you're already half way there.”
― Colleen Truscott Fry
“We spend our lives asking the question, ‘What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?’ But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our lives in the pursuit of discovering who we are and what we were created to do.”
― Elizabeth Grace Saunders, The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, Author of So Good They Can't Ignore You
“Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood.”
― Amy Denise
“Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“Learn to be brave and adventurous because you’ll never discover your place in the world, if you’re too afraid to leave your own backyard.”
― Nina Guilbeau
“All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.”
― Ralph Ellison
“There are no ordinary people. The blur or everyday reality has created a world in which most of us have forgotten our unique and sacred existence...it is [our] true self, once discovered, that enables us to understand more clearly the nature of our world, and our own existence.”
― Kim Chestney
“You'd be surprised how often you doubt your own sanity when you don't understand your own capacities.”
― K.M. Mac Aulay "Black Anna
“There are times in every person’s life when they feel lonely, isolated, like maybe they don’t belong. For adoptees, this is often exacerbated by the circumstances. Because you were given up, you have a built-in scapegoat; you can blame everything that you feel on the fact that you were adopted. But, I want you to know that this is a fallacy. Finding your biological parents will not fill in the void that you feel. You will get answers to your questions, but no one can fill in the missing pieces except for you. Before you go on a search, take the time to get to know yourself very well. Heal the hurts you’ve experienced. Acknowledge the past and how it has affected you. Become a whole person who is seeking roots, not a damaged person who is seeking fulfillment.”
― Janet Louise Stephenson, Who Gives Up Adorable Little Girls Anyway?
“If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“Make sure your subconscious knows you love it by stroking it until it purrs.”
― Teresa Sue McAdams
“I shall now call myself;
I shall now call.
In the forest of my heart, seeing myself,
I shall love myself and love myself.
I shall be my own quest,
My absolute wealth.
The journey of light supreme will commence
In the heart of freedom.”
― Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey
“Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I know what to do to get it. I will provide for myself.”
― Marlene Van Niekerk, Agaat
“Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.”
― David Levitham
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