Self Discovery Quotes

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.

~ David Levithan

The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.

~ David Levithan

I just needed to realize that style was like personality - it didn't always have to be consistent, it just had to be something you lived with.

~ David Levithan

What happens this weekend stays between us. We set the rules.

~ Jayson James

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

~ David Levithan

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

~ William Wordsworth

single people without children have a childish sensitivity and are unwilling or unable to compromise or fit in

~ Ninni Holmqvist

A journey of self-discovery is never pointless, Prince Zuko. However dim your path may seem, and however far you may wander from it...the important thing is that you learn from all of your mistakes along the way and never forget for one moment who you are, or what you are struggling to be.

~ Dave Roman

One desire, my friends, one: to kill yourself. You must desire this. You must feel that a voyage of discovery is more important than all the little trips which the normal consumer self wants to buy.

~ Luke Rhinehart

But what I want to know is, is there a you independent of circumstances? Is there a way-down-deep me who is an actual, real person, the same person if she has money or not, the same if she goes to this school or that school? Or am I only a set of circumstances?-Aza

~ John Green

This was what was wrong with me. All this time I had been trying to figure out the secrets of the universe, the secrets of my own body, of my own heart. All of the answers had always been so close and yet I had always fought them without even knowing it. From the minute I'd met Dante, I had fallen in love with him. I just didn't let myself know it, think it, feel it. My father was right. And it was true what my mother said. We all fight our own private wars.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

I didn't just wake up one morning and think, I'm a boy! It sort of crept up on me and tapped me on the shoulder a few times before I started to pay attention I began to think that the word girl didn't quite fit me. It was like a shoe that was too small -- it pinched me.

~ Cat Clarke

He lies there listening to it, absorbing this sense of his own quiet drone transmuted into something of certain substance, something large, magnificent and grand—no longer him, no, but something bursting from him, leaving his split carcass behind as a monument to its source, its host, its feeding ground.

~ Patrick Bryant

feed ur destiny and not ur history. stop dwelling on your disappoinments but prepare for your Appointments

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

You can't find it out there

~ Akosua Dardaine Edwards

We are all like the clay Buddha covered with a shell of hardness created out of fear, and yet underneath each of us is a 'golden Buddha' a 'golden Christ' or a 'golden essence,' which is our real self....Much like the monk with the hammer and the chisel, our task now is to discover our true essence once again.

~ Jack Canfield

visionaries lives between 2 extremes

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

For a moment, I tried to see myself through the eyes of the girl with the black hair, or even the boy in the cowboy hat, studying my features for a vibration under the skin. The effort was visible in my face, and I felt ashamed. No wonder the boy had seemed disgusted: He must have seen the longing in me. Seen how my face was blatant with need, like an orphan's empty dish. And that was the difference between me and the black-haired girl- her face answered all it's own questions.

~ Emma Cline

Explore in the inside of you and discover your true potential. After your discovery, ameliorate on it and it will yield to an endless success.

~ Sam Adeyinka

I suppose if you take enough slim chances, you are bound to create success out of one if you stick with it long enough. Either way, imagine what you might be able to learn in the process - about the work, and yes, of yourself too.

~ Chris Hill

You can't reinvent yourself using spare parts...--Barry Randall from My Father's Ashes

~ Bruce Jenvey

Don’t waste a good idea or allow it to die inside you. One idea can bring you to the top, make your day or spark off chains of success chain reactions.

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Your unlived tomorrow is more important than your Lived yesterday

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

It's like you're a mirror and you show me who I want to be, instead of who I am.

~ Michelle Hodkin

If I had married, there is much I would not have learned of myself. This has been hard and painful and horrible. But I've learned that I'm stronger than hard, better than pain, and that with enough luck, horrible can go away.

~ Courtney Milan

It’s natural that self-discovery is a lifelong, ever-shifting process, and that what you are drawn to will likely change at various points in your life.

~ Dave Shepp

You don't just read a book to find adventure. You read a book to find yourself.

~ C.e. Dimond

Experiment to discover how little you need.

~ Alan Cohen

Who hasn't asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?

~ Clarice Lispector

After a few months she left off speculating about the villagers. She admitted that there was something about them which she could not fathom, but she was content to remain outside the secret, whatever it was. She had not come to Great Mop to concern herself with the hearts of men. Let her stray up the valleys, and rest in the leafless woods that looked so warm with their core of fallen red leaves, and find out her own secret, if she had one; with autumn it might come back to question her. She wondered. She thought not. She felt that nothing could ever again disturb her peace. Wherever she strayed the hills folded themselves round her like the fingers of a hand.

~ Sylvia Townsend Warner

Satnav will get us quickly and all-too-predictably from A to B, but the path of life is more interesting when we’re allowed to explore the side streets.

~ Fennel Hudson

A motorcycle is a vehicle of change, after all. It puts the wheels beneath a midlife crisis, or a coming-of-age saga, or even just the discovery of something new, something you didn't realize was there. It provides the means to cross over, to transition, or to revitalize; motorcycles are self-discovery's favorite vehicle.

~ Lily Brooks-Dalton

You carry the message you've been seeking, but realization of it is found in healthy retrospection, not among the wilderness of chaotic noise.

~ T.f. Hodge

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.

~ Azar Nafisi

Do something,get something. Do nothing,get nothing. Doing is the beginning of being. Being is the beginning of achieving. Achieving is the essence of living and living is the spices of life

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

You cannot win your future if you cannot forgive your past

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

You can create viable ventures out of turbulent adventure.

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Is it bad to like the way the scars look on my skin? Oh, the way they feel under my hands. My body’s protecting itself, saying, “No, this barrier of scar tissue is to keep you out.

~ Taylor Rhodes

Life is a deep and contemplative story stuck on repeat. love, loss, self-destruction, self-discovery

~ Pete Wentz

I am astounded at how long it takes to discover... for the first time,the things I have learned... over and over again all my life.

~ Portia Nelson