Self Discovery Quotes

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go" "To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself." "Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your life drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them" "Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be" "Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." "The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning" "Through others we become ourselves" "Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are" "I am not sure that I exist actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited" "The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it." "The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy" "The more man alienates himself from the world around him, the more he alienates himself also from his own inner world" "Thought I could fly so I stepped off the Golden" "I had to just grow up and be myself, and not be what everyone else wanted me to be" "Part of me feels like I've been striving for approval so hard I don't even know who I'm doing it for anymore" "If you’ve never tried, how will you ever know if there’s any chance?" "I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss." "I used to be so delusional. I always imagined I could be more than I was, and eventually I grew and evolved into that person." "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be" "The only advice that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions."