Quotes about Self-discovery

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the hour of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!

As life goes on, they become not two compatible beings who have learned to live together through self-suppression and patience, but one new and richer being, fused in the fires of God's love and tempered of the best of both. One by one, the veils of life's mysteries have been lifted. The flesh, they found, was too precocious to reveal its own mystery; then came the mystery of the other's inner life, disclosed in the raising of young minds and hearts in the ways of God;

The more you are led by God's love, the more you become yourself and it is all done without ever losing your freedom.

So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

I was completely nuts for most of my life.