Quotes about Self-discovery

I wait for you to complete the voyage into yourself, for the old wounds to heal. I know that when you return from your nightmares, we shall again walk hand in hand, as before.

I'm fine here, Lenny. I'm discovering who I am without all my ornaments and accessories. It's quite a slow process, but a very useful one. Everybody ought to do the same at the end of their life. If I had any self-discipline I would beat my grandson to it and write my own memoirs. I have time, freedom, and silence, the three things I never had amidst all the noise of my earlier life. I'm preparing to die.

Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.

We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

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 was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day.

It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it.

Forgiveness isn't for the person you're forgiving, Echo. It's for yourself. It's what you do to be set free.

We're all stuck, a little bit, in the valley between who we want to be and who we are.