Quotes about Self-discovery

We live from our depths—most of which we do not understand.

Great part of our growth includes disengaging from the expectations of others.

Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving..toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

What you are doing is exploring. You are undertaking the first experience, not of the place, but of yourself in that place... nobody can discover the world for anybody else. It is only after we have discovered it for ourselves that it becomes a common ground and a common bond, and we cease to be alone.

My life, though, has been something (as only now at last I am able to see), but it is something that it has made of itself, not something that I have made of it. All I seem to have done is avoid wherever I could (so far) the man across the desk—for (so far) the world has afforded a little room for a few of us, lucky or blessed, to go around him. And now I wonder if I can die quickly enough and secretly enough to make the final evasion.

If you attempt to build intimacy with a person before you've done the hard work of becoming a whole and healthy person, every relationship will be an attempt to complete the hole in your heart and the lack of what you don't have. That relationship will end in disaster.

Clara had said to ask God for the truth. "Discover the truth about God, who He is, how He works, how much He loves. And then you'll uncover the truth about yourself, your sin, the ways you displease God. The truth about your life is always better to know, even if it hurts.

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

To come to the table is to learn to be our real selves—not some construct conceived by someone else, but who God made us to be.

Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing—turn out your toes when you walk—and remember who you are!