Quotes about Self-discovery
Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.
— Paulo Coelho
Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.
— Oprah Winfrey
Life is to be lived, not controlled.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).
— Richard Paul Evans
When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life
— Walt Whitman
Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.
— John Eldredge
People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The first six years I was kept totally alone. The last six years I had two people staying in the house. The first six years really trained me very well.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
— George Eliot
Romola had had contact with no mind that could stir the larger possibilities of her nature; they lay folded and crushed like embryonic wings, making no element in her consciousness beyond an occasional vague uneasiness.
— George Eliot