Quotes about Self-discovery

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection ... She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others.

No. I don't think I've ever been really lonely in my life," answered Anne. "Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I LIKE to be alone now and then, just to think over things and TASTE them.

It was really dreadful to be different from other people...and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people . . . and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star. Hazel would not have been one of the common herd for anything . . . no matter what she suffered by reason of her differentness.

It really was dreadful to be so different from other people... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were being strayed from another star.

The freedom to think involves the courage to stumble upon our demons.

If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn't begun.

If you try to follow everyone else and be like everyone else, before you know it you're gone. You're not going to find yourself again; you'll just be a version of what you might have hoped to have been.

The soul knows everything. Be who you are and your life will transform forever.