Quotes about Self-discovery

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self — never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted. Becoming

There is a fine line between loneliness and independence.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

Don't try to be anyone else because that's been done before. Find yourself and what makes you tick.

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

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

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.