self-discovery

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9378bcc	When I discover who I am, I'll be free.	identity independence self-awareness self-discovery	Ralph Ellison
f338998	Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.	introspection self-discovery	Lewis Carroll
c34cf67	We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.	poetry self-discovery wisdom	T. S. Eliot
e7de926	In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you.	change character empowerment love men nature pleasing self-discovery self-esteem self-respect truthfulness wisdom women youth	Dorothy Parker
13d2d21	I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.	instinct knowledge search seekers self-awareness self-discovery understanding	Hermann Hesse
88dcc81	Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.	buffy-the-vampire-slayer changes inspirational life self-determination self-discovery strength whistler	Joss Whedon
b8bf2a4	It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,	attention compassion happiness happy-life inspirational kindness life love meaning-of-life meditation money oneness peace perspective philosophy positive-attitude positive-living purpose purpose-in-life purpose-of-life purposeful-living respect revelation self-awareness self-discovery spirit spirituality wisdom	Amit Ray
d4788e6	"Do you ever feel that way?" "Lonely?" I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't really met yourself yet. As is you'd passed yourself once in the fog, and your heart leapt - 'Ah! There I Am! I've been missing that piece!' But it happens too fast, and then that part of you disappears into the fog again. And you spend the rest of your days looking for it." He nods, and I think he's appeasing me. I feel stupid of having said it. It's sentimental and true, and I've revealed a part of myself I shouldn't have. "Do you know what I think?" Kartik says at last. "What?" "Sometimes, I think you can glimpse it in another."	found gemma-doyle kartik lonely lost restless self-discovery	Libba Bray
d07b584	It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.	self-awareness self-discovery self-evaluation	Marianne Williamson
d70b496	One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.	creative-process creativity inspirational mental-illness outsider self-discovery	Friedrich Nietzsche
43ccf31	When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them! I pretended to read slowly so I could "wait" for everyone else who couldn't read as fast as I could! When my friends were short I pretended that I was short too and if my friend was sad I pretended to be unhappy. I could go on and on about all the ways I have limited myself, my whole life, by "waiting" for people. And the only thing that I've ever received in return is people thinking that they are faster than me, people thinking that they can make me feel bad about myself just because I let them and people thinking that I have to do whatever they say I should do. My mother used to teach me "Cinderella is a perfect example to be" but I have learned that Cinderella can go fuck herself, I'm not waiting for anybody, anymore! I'm going to run as fast as I can, fly as high as I can, I am going to soar and if you want you can come with me! But I'm not waiting for you anymore.	achievement breaking-free changing cinderella flying freedom fulfilling-your-potential fulfillment goodbye-cinderella growing inspirational inspirational-quotes inspiring learning life life-and-living limits living living-life personal-fulfillment personal-limits potential running self-discovery self-growth soaring waiting your-full-potential	C. JoyBell C.
1a560bf	He not busy being born is busy dying.	inspirational lyrics music self-discovery songs	Bob Dylan
405a65c	It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.	drugs self-discovery	Chuck Palahniuk
9c5dbfd	We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.	perspective revelation self-discovery	John Irving
8ee9b22	Your inner strength is your outer foundation	inspirational love motivation peace personal-development personal-growth quotes realization self self-discovery self-help spiritual-growth upliftment	Allan Rufus
86deb4c	It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.	inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes mirror reflections self self-awareness self-discovery self-reflection the-world truth	C. JoyBell C.
b8ad8b8	[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in.	open-mindedness preconceptions self-discovery	Alan Alda
142046e	Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.	happiness-quotes inner-peace inner-strength inspirational lifestyle meditation self-awareness self-discovery spiritual wisdom	Amit Ray
7bb9fdc	the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.	fate self-discovery understanding	Jeanette Winterson
8dc3bbd	It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.	self-discovery	Anne Tyler
a2bfa99	There is an illusion about America, a myth about America to which we are clinging which has nothing to do with the lives we lead and I don't believe that anybody in this country who has really thought about it or really almost anybody who has been brought up against it--and almost all of us have one way or another--this collision between one's image of oneself and what one actually is is always very painful and there are two things you can do about it, you can meet the collision head-on and try and become what you really are or you can retreat and try to remain what you thought you were, which is a fantasy, in which you will certainly perish.	self-discovery	James Baldwin
fd0d64f	"Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to."	cloud-atlas disgust hate history postmodern postmodernism reflection self-discovery self-disgust	David Mitchell
e25b7cd	For awakened human beings, there was no obligation--none, none, none at all--except this: to search for yourself, become sure of yourself, feel your way forward along your own path, wherever it led.	self-discovery	Hermann Hesse
d3fcced	I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.	self-discovery soul	John Banville
b4522e0	"People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be -- flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design -- but as he strolled about the courts at night and saw through the windows some men singing and others arguing and others at their books, there came by no process of reason a conviction that they were human beings with feelings akin to his own. He had never lived frankly since Mr Abrahams's school, and despite Dr Barry did not mean to begin; but he saw that while deceiving others he had been deceived, and mistaken them for the empty creatures he wanted them to think he was. No, they too had insides. "But, O Lord, not such an inside as mine."	self-discovery	E.M. Forster
dcf411d	The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital even when sad. I may wake up sometime next year without my mind again; it is not likely to stick around all the time. Meanwhile, however, I have discovered what I would have to call a soul, a part of myself I could never have imagined until one day, seven years ago, when hell came to pay me a surprise visit. It's a precious discovery.	depression self-discovery self-knowledge	Andrew Solomon
9a1089e	And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?	self-awareness self-discovery	Diana Gabaldon
6e12a5b	The price one pays when choosing exile is the loss of all that defines you as an individual. The only thing that makes this immense loss tolerable is the discovery of a self you did not know existed - of a true independence. That is the real gift of America, not its fabled wealth and prosperity.	self-discovery	Azar Nafisi
3fbb556	I want to know the age. The sex. Most of all, the fingerprints. I'd like to identify who it is. After he had agreed, and I had left the office, walking to calm myself, I thought: And who am I? Please tell me who I am and what I'm doing.	self-discovery	Paul Theroux
018e9b3	Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization. Now he begins to understand: because pain is a god--he has been in the grip of this cruel god ever since Anakin's death. But it is also a teacher, and a bridge. It can be a slave master, and break you--and it can be the power that makes you unbreakable. It is all these things, and more. At the same time. What it is depends on who you are. But who am I? he wonders. I've been running like Dad--like Anakin. I think they stopped, though; I think Dad was strong enough to turn back and face it, to use the pain to make himself stronger, like Mom and Uncle Luke. Anakin did, too, at the end. Am I that strong? There's only one way to find out.	pain self-discovery self-improvement self-realization strength suffering	Matthew Woodring Stover
40aa0c2	We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.	self-discovery writers writers-on-writing writing	Jane Yolen
6f84f5e	"Soul work [is] [...] seeking to realize (make "real") Who You Truly Are. You can create Who You Are over and over again. Indeed, you do - every day. As things now stand, you do not always come up with the same answer, however. Given an identical outer experience, on day one you may choose to be patient, loving and kind in relationship to it. On day two you may choose to be angry, ugly and sad. The Master is one who always comes up with the same answer - and that answer is always the highest choice. In this the Master is imminently predictable. Conversely, the student is completely unpredictable. One can tell how one is doing on the road to mastery by simply noticing how predictably one makes the highest choice in responding or reacting to any situation."	enlightenment journey-of-life meaning-of-life purpose purpose-of-life purposeful-living self-discovery soul-work who-you-really-are	Neale Donald Walsch
d9a94d3	Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them	decisions life self-discovery	Ann Packer
8e7cad0	You think if you don't talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you let yourself go anywhere real with it, you have to acknowledge it.	honesty love self-disclosure self-discovery truth	Laura Dave

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

identity independence self-awareness self-discovery

Ralph Ellison

f338998

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

introspection self-discovery

Lewis Carroll

c34cf67

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

poetry self-discovery wisdom

T. S. Eliot

e7de926

In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you.

change character empowerment love men nature pleasing self-discovery self-esteem self-respect truthfulness wisdom women youth

Dorothy Parker

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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

instinct knowledge search seekers self-awareness self-discovery understanding

Hermann Hesse

88dcc81

Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.

buffy-the-vampire-slayer changes inspirational life self-determination self-discovery strength whistler

Joss Whedon

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It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,

attention compassion happiness happy-life inspirational kindness life love meaning-of-life meditation money oneness peace perspective philosophy positive-attitude positive-living purpose purpose-in-life purpose-of-life purposeful-living respect revelation self-awareness self-discovery spirit spirituality wisdom

Amit Ray

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"Do you ever feel that way?" "Lonely?" I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't really met yourself yet. As is you'd passed yourself once in the fog, and your heart leapt - 'Ah! There I Am! I've been missing that piece!' But it happens too fast, and then that part of you disappears into the fog again. And you spend the rest of your days looking for it." He nods, and I think he's appeasing me. I feel stupid of having said it. It's sentimental and true, and I've revealed a part of myself I shouldn't have. "Do you know what I think?" Kartik says at last. "What?" "Sometimes, I think you can glimpse it in another."

found gemma-doyle kartik lonely lost restless self-discovery

Libba Bray

d07b584

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

self-awareness self-discovery self-evaluation

Marianne Williamson

d70b496

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

creative-process creativity inspirational mental-illness outsider self-discovery

Friedrich Nietzsche

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When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them! I pretended to read slowly so I could "wait" for everyone else who couldn't read as fast as I could! When my friends were short I pretended that I was short too and if my friend was sad I pretended to be unhappy. I could go on and on about all the ways I have limited myself, my whole life, by "waiting" for people. And the only thing that I've ever received in return is people thinking that they are faster than me, people thinking that they can make me feel bad about myself just because I let them and people thinking that I have to do whatever they say I should do. My mother used to teach me "Cinderella is a perfect example to be" but I have learned that Cinderella can go fuck herself, I'm not waiting for anybody, anymore! I'm going to run as fast as I can, fly as high as I can, I am going to soar and if you want you can come with me! But I'm not waiting for you anymore.

achievement breaking-free changing cinderella flying freedom fulfilling-your-potential fulfillment goodbye-cinderella growing inspirational inspirational-quotes inspiring learning life life-and-living limits living living-life personal-fulfillment personal-limits potential running self-discovery self-growth soaring waiting your-full-potential

C. JoyBell C.

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He not busy being born is busy dying.

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Bob Dylan

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It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

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Chuck Palahniuk

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We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

perspective revelation self-discovery

John Irving

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Your inner strength is your outer foundation

inspirational love motivation peace personal-development personal-growth quotes realization self self-discovery self-help spiritual-growth upliftment

Allan Rufus

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It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.

inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes mirror reflections self self-awareness self-discovery self-reflection the-world truth

C. JoyBell C.

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[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in.

open-mindedness preconceptions self-discovery

Alan Alda

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Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

happiness-quotes inner-peace inner-strength inspirational lifestyle meditation self-awareness self-discovery spiritual wisdom

Amit Ray

7bb9fdc

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.

fate self-discovery understanding

Jeanette Winterson

8dc3bbd

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

self-discovery

Anne Tyler

a2bfa99

There is an illusion about America, a myth about America to which we are clinging which has nothing to do with the lives we lead and I don't believe that anybody in this country who has really thought about it or really almost anybody who has been brought up against it--and almost all of us have one way or another--this collision between one's image of oneself and what one actually is is always very painful and there are two things you can do about it, you can meet the collision head-on and try and become what you really are or you can retreat and try to remain what you thought you were, which is a fantasy, in which you will certainly perish.

self-discovery

James Baldwin

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"Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to."

cloud-atlas disgust hate history postmodern postmodernism reflection self-discovery self-disgust

David Mitchell

e25b7cd

For awakened human beings, there was no obligation--none, none, none at all--except this: to search for yourself, become sure of yourself, feel your way forward along your own path, wherever it led.

self-discovery

Hermann Hesse

d3fcced

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.

self-discovery soul

John Banville

b4522e0

"People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be -- flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design -- but as he strolled about the courts at night and saw through the windows some men singing and others arguing and others at their books, there came by no process of reason a conviction that they were human beings with feelings akin to his own. He had never lived frankly since Mr Abrahams's school, and despite Dr Barry did not mean to begin; but he saw that while deceiving others he had been deceived, and mistaken them for the empty creatures he wanted them to think he was. No, they too had insides. "But, O Lord, not such an inside as mine."

self-discovery

E.M. Forster

dcf411d

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital even when sad. I may wake up sometime next year without my mind again; it is not likely to stick around all the time. Meanwhile, however, I have discovered what I would have to call a soul, a part of myself I could never have imagined until one day, seven years ago, when hell came to pay me a surprise visit. It's a precious discovery.

depression self-discovery self-knowledge

Andrew Solomon

9a1089e

And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?

self-awareness self-discovery

Diana Gabaldon

6e12a5b

The price one pays when choosing exile is the loss of all that defines you as an individual. The only thing that makes this immense loss tolerable is the discovery of a self you did not know existed - of a true independence. That is the real gift of America, not its fabled wealth and prosperity.

self-discovery

Azar Nafisi

3fbb556

I want to know the age. The sex. Most of all, the fingerprints. I'd like to identify who it is. After he had agreed, and I had left the office, walking to calm myself, I thought: And who am I? Please tell me who I am and what I'm doing.

self-discovery

Paul Theroux

018e9b3

Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization. Now he begins to understand: because pain is a god--he has been in the grip of this cruel god ever since Anakin's death. But it is also a teacher, and a bridge. It can be a slave master, and break you--and it can be the power that makes you unbreakable. It is all these things, and more. At the same time. What it is depends on who you are. But who am I? he wonders. I've been running like Dad--like Anakin. I think they stopped, though; I think Dad was strong enough to turn back and face it, to use the pain to make himself stronger, like Mom and Uncle Luke. Anakin did, too, at the end. Am I that strong? There's only one way to find out.

pain self-discovery self-improvement self-realization strength suffering

Matthew Woodring Stover

40aa0c2

We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.

self-discovery writers writers-on-writing writing

Jane Yolen

6f84f5e

"Soul work [is] [...] seeking to realize (make "real") Who You Truly Are. You can create Who You Are over and over again. Indeed, you do - every day. As things now stand, you do not always come up with the same answer, however. Given an identical outer experience, on day one you may choose to be patient, loving and kind in relationship to it. On day two you may choose to be angry, ugly and sad. The Master is one who always comes up with the same answer - and that answer is always the highest choice. In this the Master is imminently predictable. Conversely, the student is completely unpredictable. One can tell how one is doing on the road to mastery by simply noticing how predictably one makes the highest choice in responding or reacting to any situation."

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Neale Donald Walsch

d9a94d3

Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them

decisions life self-discovery

Ann Packer

8e7cad0

You think if you don't talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you let yourself go anywhere real with it, you have to acknowledge it.

honesty love self-disclosure self-discovery truth

Laura Dave