Quotes about Self-discovery

People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Romola had had contact with no mind that could stir the larger possibilities of her nature; they lay folded and crushed like embryonic wings, making no element in her consciousness beyond an occasional vague uneasiness.

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self — never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted. Becoming

There is a fine line between loneliness and independence.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.