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Quotes about Self-discovery

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
- Oscar Wilde
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.
- Margaret Atwood
In the quiet of an early morning, honesty finds me. It calls to me through a crack in my soul and invites the real me to come out, come out, wherever you are. Not the carefully edited edition of the me I am this year. No, honesty wants to speak to the least tidy version of the woman I've become. The one I can't make look more alive with a few swipes of mascara and a little color on my lips.
- Lysa TerKeurst
The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but . . . what we are meant to be.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Love. That's what makes persons know who they are. You're full of love, Meg, but you don't know how to stay within it when it's not easy.
- Madeleine L'Engle
My name is now Christian, but my name used to be Graceless.
- John Bunyan
Accordingly, the knowledge of ourselves not only arouses us to seek God, but also, as it were, leads us by the hand to find him.
- John Calvin
Every person, therefore, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find him.
- John Calvin
The more you connect to the Power within you, the more you can be free in all areas of your life.
- Louise Hay
The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
- Marianne Williamson
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.
- Virginia Woolf
The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.
- Fr. Richard Rohr