Quotes about Self-discovery

Honesty wanted me to bring the core of who I believe I am and hold it up to the light of what's really true. And there's not a soul alive who will find perfect alignment there. Not. One.

What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.

Honesty isn't trying to hurt me. It's trying to heal me.

The funny thing is, that high school girl thought finding love and getting married would fix all of this. It didn't. People can't fix from the outside a perspective that needs to be rewired on the inside. Only the Lord can do that.

I have allowed myself to believe that to be stripped of all the props and pretensions and accolades and approvals is to be stripped of the best parts of me. When in reality what's best about me comes to the forefront when I'm closest to the way God created me, naked and unashamed. To stand naked and unashamed is the way of the garden life.

What numbs us imprisons us.

Heartbreaking seasons can certainly grow me but were never meant to define me.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

The true test of a man, the beginning of his redemption, actually starts when he can no longer rely on what he's used all his life. The real journey begins when the false self fails.

You have only one life to live.It would be best to live your own.

And he wants you to be utterly yourself, with him.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.