Quotes about Self-discovery

For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, This is what I have made of it! This! And what had she made of it? What, indeed?

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

To be myself (I note) I need the illumination of other people's eyes, and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my self.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry...I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken.

To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.

When I rummage in my own mind I find no noble sentiments about being companions and equals and influencing the world to higher ends. I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else.

I have lived a thousand lives already. Every day I unbury--I dig up. I find relics of myself in the sand that women made thousands of years ago...

He knew more of my intended career than I knew myself. I should be well enough educated for my destiny if I could "hold my own" with average young man in prosperous circumstances.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To

We must be our own, before we can be another's.

When you understand why you were born, you can handle whatever comes your way. You stop running from your past, from your pain, and from your mistakes.

When persons encounter God's self-disclosure, they not only know who God is but also who they are.