Quotes about Self-discovery

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.

The wilderness trial of Christ is, at its core, a test of his identity. "If you are who you think you are... " If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he's here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.

If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he's here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.