Quotes about Self-discovery

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul

Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging.

Look within. Within is the fountain of Good, ready always to well forth if thou wilt alway delve.

I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.

Inside John, she thinks, is another John, who is much nicer. This other John will emerge like a butterfly from a cocoon, a Jack from a box, a pit from a prune, if the first John is only squeezed enough.

But then it came to me that who I really am is a person who doesn't need to know who he really is, in the usual sense. What does it mean, anyway - family background and so forth? People use it mostly as an excuse for their own snobbery, or else their failings. I'm free of the temptation, that's all. I'm free of the strings. Nothing ties me down.

I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. Treacherous ground, my own territory.

I take back what you have stolen, and in your languages I announce I am now nameless. My true name is a growl.

I stand in the dark, start to unbutton. Then I hear something inside my body. I've broken, something has cracked, that must be it. Noise is coming up, coming out, of the broken place, in my face. Without warning: I wasn't thinking about here or there or anywhere. If I let the noise get out into the air it will be laughter, too loud, too much of it, someone is bound to hear.

Returning from the dead used to be something I did well I began asking why I began forgetting how

You can't be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time.