Quotes about Self-discovery

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.

I hear Aslan's words to Shasta: "'Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story. . . . I tell no one any story but his own.

“What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied.

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.

I've been through all this before,' he says to his heart. " 'Yes, you have been through all this before,' replies his heart. 'But you have never been beyond it.

Stop being yourself and become who u always wanted to be

you only know yourself when you go beyond your limits

You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?

The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.

we're allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us

I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.