Self Discovery Quotes

An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and contradictory conceptions that motivate us, and delve larger truths out of variable and erratic elements of human nature.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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

~ John Irving

He's got all the pains of being lost and all the benefits of being told where to go. He wants it the other way around.

~ Patrick Bryant

We must live a genuine life in order to discover personal happiness and self-fulfillment. Understanding that a person is living a lie is the first step into realizing what is possible. No matter how frightful such a proposition is, we must dare to be an original self.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

There are no ordinary people. The blur or everyday reality has created a world in which most of us have forgotten our unique and sacred existence...it is [our] true self, once discovered, that enables us to understand more clearly the nature of our world, and our own existence.

~ Kim Chestney

Despite the personalization of life’s events, all people largely experience the same general transformative stages of life and eventually we all encounter a row of similar tragedies. We do not experience identical lives or exemplify replicable personalities. Every person is a receptacle whom is capable of experiencing the full gamut of the entire human condition. Our lives act as a period of apprenticeship, which we devote laboring to discover the truths that we can live by.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Being happy where you are does not mean that you must unquestioningly accept parts of your environment that don't serve you. Where you are is inside of this amazing body, this beautiful moment, this capable mind. Where you are is inside of an eternal opportunity. And sometimes you need to change your environment to remember that.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

We are paint streaked runners,deafened by the cries of all the sad people. It's a powerful sound that practically yanks the tears right out of you. Sometimes, you just can't help but feel like a very smallclam ina verybig ocean.

~ Taylor Rhodes

Seek to know thy higher self.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With thousands of years of history frozen in time, it's no wonder that many southerners like me romanticize the north as a place where we can freeze our former selves, thaw, and then bloom anew. Here it’s just you, the land, and your thoughts, and you can't leave until you've wrestled with yourself and emerged a survivor. But then again, the light is much more intense up here and everything looks different because of it. The sun hasn’t set in a couple of months, and you can see things much more clearly when it is light all of the time.

~ Shannon Mullen

Like words written in the sand taken away by wavesThousands of years of culture discovered in lost cavesClimbing to a mountain at it's highest peakOut of no where strength when thought down and weak

~ Justin Bienvenue

I mean, I really liked him to the point where being around him was sort of wonderful and painful all at the same time, you know?

~ Kenneth Logan

I could feel his hand on my waist, his arms around me, feel the rise and fall of his chest next to mine as I held my breath, and wished the sun would drop out of the sky.

~ Kenneth Logan

It was duck apocalypse!

~ Kenneth Logan

I've always wanted to wake up one day in a world where I liked the right people, and they lied me in return. I worry it'll never happen.

~ Kenneth Logan

I'm still not totally sure I know what's true about me.

~ Kenneth Logan

The bulk of life is discovering who you are—and then reconciling that with who you wish you were.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

So, each of us has a special gift and it takes time to discover it

~ Sunday Adelaja

When you discover the gift inside you, you have to submit yourself to the gift and improve it

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you can dedicate yourself to asking questions to reveal your potential, you will discover your potentials and start to fulfil your mission

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you want to save the snow leopard, or the giant Redwoods, or the Okavango delta, or the Amazon, or the atmosphere, or the Earth, or those you love, or yourself, or the human race, this is the only path that can achieve that–so the truth is the sooner you support and adopt this path of transformation through understanding the better. The choice is self-destruction or self-discovery.

~ Jeremy Griffith

Why is it that one of the best songs in the world has to be written by the BeeGees?Benedict

~ Tricia Walker

Keep the goal in mind and push onward to accomplish it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood.

~ Amy Denise

Tonight was definitely an eye opener, but a reminder of how I use to be & why. Self discovery happens at such random times.

~ April Mae Monterrosa

I’m saying that sometimes we don’t want to see the ugliness in others because it means seeing what’s ugly in ourselves.

~ Brian F. Walker

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

~ Anne Lamott

Hold this rope while I dive into my soul, don't even bother pulling it if I didn't come up on my own.

~ Ahmed Mostafa

When she asked what my father taught me, I told her I couldn't put it into words. But then I lay awake watching the snow fall outside and came up with this: how brave a thing it was for him to try to rediscover something, even if it was only himself, not a continent.

~ Peter Geye

The greatest achievement is self discovery.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in the act of communion and creation.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The act of writing involves documenting and studiously examining interactions of all aspects of the self, the environment, and culture. Writing is an illustrious act of self-expression. Writing resembles a ‘coming of the age’ story because the ongoing process of defining a person’s personality and character is representative of the synergistic product of the continuous and cumulative interaction of an organic self with the world, the constant process of developing psychological, social, cognitive and ethical self.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

When writing a comprehensive self-investigatory scroll, the writer attempts to weave a network of strands capable of enmeshing all sizes of ideas including those with no obvious interconnection. The writer must also trace all lingering thoughts to their original source in personal experiences, and revaluate each exquisite nuance notched into a person’s conscious mind including acts of depravity, violence, and the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.

~ Aristotle

it’s a lifetime process to figure out how to fill your soul.

~ Jennifer Mattern

The Joseph in you must rise to the challenges of life and turn them into gold

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

there must be instinct on d inside to have an increase on d outside

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

SAY IT IS WELL EVEN WHEN U ARE INSIDE D WELL.WE CAN STILL SEE GOD THRU D BLACKNESS OF DARKNESS.TRUST GOD.

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Character is the real you-“the you in you that makes you the you, you are”. “the hidden man of the heart” (1Peter 3:4).

~ Ikechukwu Joseph