Quotes about Self-discovery
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you've been given.
— Bishop TD Jakes
The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.
— Bishop TD Jakes
To fulfill your purpose, you must first know and celebrate your identity!
— Bishop TD Jakes
The moment you start to embrace how you have been formed and fashioned is the moment you step into the very purpose for which you were created.
— Bishop TD Jakes
soul survivor," someone who's willing to open up and examine the pain in order to lance the wound and perforate the power of the past.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Perhaps looking at the forensics of your past can catapult you forward in a way that merely dreaming can never attain!
— Bishop TD Jakes
first things that a hurting person needs to do is break the habit of using other people as a narcotic to numb the dull aching of an inner void.
— Bishop TD Jakes
It's miserable living someone else's life, and it is downright suffocating to live beneath your potential.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Do you have any idea who you have the capacity to become? If you were not bound by the confines of your mind, who might you become?
— Bishop TD Jakes
I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.
— Gabrielle Union
Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.
— Charles Spurgeon