Self Discovery Quotes

You are God’s design to decorate this world. You are a repertoire of wisdom and an encyclopedia of God’s knowledge.

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Character is the real you-“the you in you that makes you the you, you are

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Poverty Effeciency Syndrome are multiple negative poverty effects (Self induced effects,acquired,inherited..)

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

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.

~ Libba Bray

So many of the things she had found lately hadn't been precisely lost. But she wasn't found without them.

~ Martina Boone

Your destination should determine who you choose as friend

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Here is the truth about self-discovery: it is never without cost.

~ Angela Flournoy

I wondered how that felt, to really like yourself. And I wondered why some people didn't like themselves and others did. Maybe that's just the way it was.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

A writer must be willing to leave oneself behind in order to explore new territories of the mind and unearth primordial truths that startle and frighten us.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The evil components of our shadow are the part of us that we deplore, the part of us that we prefer not to admit. One must set themselves free from all inhibitions in order to initiate close encounters with their innermost monster. By standing toe-to-toe with the part of ourselves that we most detest, a person is in a position to slay their fiendish sense of self and, by doing so, undergo a soulful transformation.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A youth is susceptible to the influence of idealist notions. As a person ages, they notice a gap between their expectations and reality and they grow more pessimistic about the world and their ability to live up to the lofty notions that inspired a younger self.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

~ Bob Marley

Totally isolated from our own culture for long periods, we became vulnerable to forgotten times and tribes re-awakening within us. Our journeys, we found, were to take us simultaneously to some of the least-charted regions of the planet and to the least-charted regions of our own minds. What began for us as the effort to capture a purely objective record of what we saw gradually dissolved into a quest, an odyssey of self-discovery which actually took place amongst the last of the lands of real living kings and queens, dragons and pirates, cannibals and headhunters, mystics and magicians.

~ Lawrence Blair

But sometimes you have to make a decision with your heart instead of your head, and that’s what I did. I know I’ve made the right decision even if it takes my brain a little while to catch up to my heart.

~ Marie Landry

As I watch Nicholas make his way back to his truck, I know one thing: this boy is going to make my life very interesting. I feel as if a fragment of the old me broke away tonight and disappeared, and I’m finally, truly beginning my new life.

~ Marie Landry

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

~ Lewis Carroll

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

~ Bob Moawad

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.

~ Eckhart Tolle

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.

~ Sarah Dessen

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

~ E.l. Konigsburg

[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.

~ Alan Alda

I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.

~ David Levithan

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.

~ David Levithan

You find out who you are by figuring out who and what you're not

~ Kelly Cutrone

We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.

~ Sarah Dessen

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

~ Donna Tartt

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

~ Marcus Aurelius

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

~ Anne Tyler

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.

~ Quentin Crisp

We are not taught love thy neighbor unless their skin is a different color from yours or love thy neighbor unless they don't make money as you do or love thy neighbor unless they don't share your belies. We are taught love thy neighbor. No exceptions. We are all in this together - every single one of us. And the only way we are going to survive as a society is through compassion. A Great Community does not mean we all think the same things or do the same things. It simply means we are willing to work together and are willing to love despite our differences.

~ David Levithan

I've heard people say that they lose themselves in a kiss. But in that moment, it was the opposite for me. I felt like I found myself. Not how I wished I was, or who I was afraid I was becoming, but who I really was.

~ Jon Skovron

You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the more things change,the more they don't stay the same. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once - but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time.

~ David Levithan

Some girls have to go to college to discover what they are good at, some are born doing what they must without even truly knowing why. I felt a hole in my heart shaped like a dark door I needed to guard.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

If you think you’re good people, and if you are, how would you know? Is it something you always knew? Or was it something you found? Some people are naturally good at it […]. Is it worth trying to be something you’re not? Just because it’s right?

~ Jen Wang

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

~ Rabih Alameddine

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

~ David Levithan

Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.

~ David Levithan

It was so quiet, I could hear my own breathing, loud in my ears. Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.

~ Sarah Dessen