Quotes about Self-discovery

Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.

If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.

What is dark within me, illumine.

We do not know ourselves aright, Until we have the Father's light. We think we know ourselves and groan, Until we know as we are known

Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.

Anything can become a spiritual practice once you are willing to approach it that way—once you let it bring you to your knees and show you what is real, including who you really are, who other people are, and how near God can be when you have lost your way.

I've gone to look for myself. If i should return before I get back, keep me here

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

I learned that I could definitely play at a really high level and I definitely belong at this level.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.