Quotes about Self-discovery

Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.

Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the hour of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!

As life goes on, they become not two compatible beings who have learned to live together through self-suppression and patience, but one new and richer being, fused in the fires of God's love and tempered of the best of both. One by one, the veils of life's mysteries have been lifted. The flesh, they found, was too precocious to reveal its own mystery; then came the mystery of the other's inner life, disclosed in the raising of young minds and hearts in the ways of God;

The more you are led by God's love, the more you become yourself and it is all done without ever losing your freedom.