Quotes about Self-discovery

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Am I cured?" "No. You're someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.

When you can really be who you are and find out where you fit and function from a place of comfort, then you stop working. You stop wrestling.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

The vast majority of us go to our graves without knowing who we are. We unconsciously live someone else's life, or at least someone else's expectations for us. This does violence to ourselves, our relationship with God, and ultimately to others.

She wants to have her notebooks so that the flimsy framework of events, as she has constructed them in her school notebook, will be provided with walls and become a house she can live in. Because if the tottering structure of her memories collapses like a clumsily pitched tent, all that Tamina will be left with is the present, that invisible point, that nothingness moving slowly toward death.

The only way to know yourself in and as the light is to let go of all your attachments to who you think you are in this world. You know the sayings: hate your entire life, deny yourself, take up the cross. All these mean the same thing. Let go of the meaning you give life in all your judgments of value based on the knowledge of good and evil. You've heard this?" "Jesus said those things," I said, knowing the verses well.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

The critical issue on the journey with God is not "Am I happy?" but "Am I free?

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.