Finding Yourself Quotes

There are two kinds of spirit, either light or darkness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What separates people who made their dreams come true is not setting goals to achieve a life the way they expect it to be, but how they expect to be, in order to achieve it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Perhaps we are all shells; but some of us have found the pearls inside, and this makes all the difference!

~ C. Joybell C.

I started to find out the path to the HELL in a decent way. Then I realized that now it's been called SOCIETY, and I'm already part of it.

~ Balakoteswara Panchakshari

It’s is not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It is a matter of doing what you love with love. Then your life and all lives will be transformed.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Most people have to get to a point where they don't have a choice before they'll change something.

~ Alex Marwood

Seeking knowledge is mandatory for every human being, as the quest for truth is the true purpose of living. We are given an entire lifetime to collect and assemble truths. Truths are acquired only when we learn to filter all information, including those valuable lessons and insights gained from our own personal experiences, through our conscience. And as we near death, the knowledge in our hearts at the end must match the knowledge which was put in our hearts in the very beginning. All else is irrelevant.

~ Suzy Kassem

You have to be selfish with who you are to stop wanting in your relationship with yourself.

~ Unarine Ramaru

You can elevate yourself to higher self by devotion to God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The instinct, quiet inner voice is the voice of the Holy Spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Find the right paths for your journey. Travel along these paths to your final destination.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey)

~ Kellie Elmore

Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You are what resides before, beyond and between what you think so do not be consumed by thought. It is only a fragment of your magic.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

You don't have to know where you're going to get exactly where you need to go.

~ Marilyn A. Hepburn

Sometimes all you need is to forgive yourself.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Sometimes you have to let go of a career you love, a beloved home, or a loved one. Take time to grieve a loss of this nature. If you find yourself disoriented, consider surrounding yourself with people who see your strengths, goodness, gifts, and talents. They will help you find your way.

~ Laura Staley

If you want to find money, focus on people. If you want to lose people, focus on money.

~ Rob Liano

Spirituality is the soul of the spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I don't have to do anything but trust the process, trust my story and enjoy the journey. It doesn't really matter who I've become by the finish line, the important things are the changes from this morning to when I fall asleep again, and how they happened, and who they happened with. An hour watching the stars, a coffee in the morning with someone beautiful, intelligent conversations at 5am while sharing the last cigarette. Taking trains to nowhere, walking hand in hand through foreign cities with someone you love. Oceans and poetry. It was all very ordinary until my identity appeared, until my body and mind became one being. The day I saw the flowers and learned how to turn my daily struggles into the most extraordinary moments. Moments worth writing about. For so long I let my life slip through my fingers, like water. I'm holding on to it now,and I'm not letting go.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it this brokenness inside me might start healing. Out here its like I'm someone else, I thought that maybe I could find myself if I could just come in I swear I'll leave. Won't take nothing but a memory from the house that built me.

~ Miranda Lambert

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The purpose of a pilgrimage is about setting aside a long period of time in which the only focus is to be the matters of the soul. Many believe a pilgrimage is about going away but it isn’t; it is about coming home. Those who choose to go on pilgrimage have already ventured away from themselves; and now set out in a longing to journey back to who they are. Many a time we believe we must go away from all that is familiar if we are to focus on our inner well-being because we feel it is the only way to escape all that drains and distracts us, allowing us to turn inward and tend to what ails us. Yet we do not need to go to the edges of the earth to learn who we are, only the edges of ourself.

~ L.m. Browning

To be away from home and yet find oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet remain hidden from the world.

~ Charles Baudelaire

May you walk on the path of light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The best part of traveling is finding yourself.

~ Ken Poirot

Walk your own path and be yourself

~ Joanne Nussbaum

I am a lonely figure when I run the roads. People wonder how far I have come, how far I have to go. They see me alone and friendless on a journey that has no visible beginning or end. I appear isolated and vulnerable, a homeless creature. It is all they can do to keep from stopping the car and asking if they can take me wherever I'm going.I know this because I feel it myself. When I see the runner I have much the same thoughts. No matter how often I run the roads myself, I am struck by how solitary my fellow runner appears. The sight of a runner at dusk or in inclement weather makes me glad to be safe and warm in my car and headed for home. And at those times, I wonder how I can go out there myself, how I can leave the comfort and warmth and that feeling of intimacy and belonging, to do this distracted thing.But when finally I am there, I realise it is not comfort and warmth I am leaving, not intimacy and belonging I am giving up, but the loneliness that pursues me this day and every day. I know that the real loneliness, the real isolation, the real vulnerability, begins long before I put on my running shoes.

~ George Sheehan

It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Divine spirit dwells in the soul of every man.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Starting a new way is never easy so...keep starting until the start sticks.

~ Tim Fargo

While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Always remember it's never about the other, the whole effort is to find your true self 'through' the other. In fact whenever your focus shifts from YOU to the other, there is bondage which will result in pain and anguish. The other is just a medium through which you can reach your interiority. Never be obsessed for them, for that would lead to a self invited hell.

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Who am I, when all I’ve ever believed myself to be, is fading before my very eyes?Am I still me, or just a shadow of what I used to be?Was I just an illusion that lived only in my head?Did I paint myself as something more than I really am?And with all these changes in my life… What will be left of the woman who dreamed her dreams?When all the colors that she wrapped herself with… are slowly being stripped away…Copyright © Eeva Lancaster

~ Eeva Lancaster

I find myself in the moment of solitude.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

I’m so used to planning for guys, dressing and undressing for them and trying to morph myself into their dream girl. I’m so used to it that I don’t really know where that girl ends and the real me begins. I suppose what it comes down to is confidence. I’m confident in that girl, the one who emerges from my walk-in wearing lingerie when I’m done getting ready. But at Faye’s house, I’m not going to be that girl. I’m going to be me. Whoever that is anymore.

~ Laurie Elizabeth Flynn