Quotes about Self-discovery
It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong. And that is something I don't want to be wrong about.
- Cormac McCarthy
Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
- DH Lawrence
The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.
- DH Lawrence
Connie woke up to the existence of legs. They became more important to her than faces, which are no longer very real.
- DH Lawrence
What we mean is that people may go on, keep on, and rush on, without souls. They have their ego and their will, that is enough to keep them going.
- DH Lawrence
I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness. All seems beautiful to me. Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.
- Walt Whitman
From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.
- Walt Whitman
Dismiss whatever insults your own soul; And your very flesh shall be a great poem…
- Walt Whitman
I am larger, better than I thought, / I did not know I held so much goodness
- Walt Whitman
Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.
- Walt Whitman
Maybe only an orphan can understand this, but we had been cut free from our anchor and the blow was crushing. We didn't know who we were, and more importantly, we didn't know whose we were -- forever proving that identity precedes purpose. You can't know who you are until you've settled whose you are. [Bones, to Murphy Shepherd, about himself and his brother Frank]
- Charles Martin
Girls need their father. Period. And I couldn't really tell you why other than it's the father who tells them who they are. Until he does, they're just floating in the earth like that tooth. Buried in some trash mound. Waiting to be discovered by somebody with a shovel who won't crack it or crush it. [Murphy Shepherd]
- Charles Martin