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“Within you, you will find everything you need to be complete.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“The thing about traveling alone, is that you run into your insecurities and fears times ten the normal! You run into all the good things and all the bad things about yourself on a daily basis, and are allowed the opportunity to truly become your own friend. Traveling alone is a learning process; some people travel for leisure, I travel to run into myself!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“We spend our lives asking the question, ‘What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?’ But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our lives in the pursuit of discovering who we are and what we were created to do.”
― Elizabeth Grace Saunders, The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, author of So Good They Can't Ignore You

“There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Sometimes it takes falling apart to see exactly how or what loosened the mortar. Sometimes we find we are responsible for the how & the what. As unpleasant as it is when it happens, one cannot help but appreciate these times for what you learn serves as a beacon. Of course this is only half the battle. Which means you're already half way there.”
― Colleen Truscott Fry

“В този ден тя избира себе си: колежка на раздрани облаци. Тен с цвят на прегоряла пшеница. Коса, изпръхнала от вятър и слънце, с дъх на чубрица. Навик за самостоятелно мислене.”
― Blaga Dimitrova, Лавина

“Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood.”
― Amy Denise

“God is funny. He had a funny day when he made me. A funny, thoughtful, crazy day. He gave me a physique by which I would be so easily and so quickly judged, then gave me a mind by which I would so deeply magnetize, He put within me a heart with small, fast wings that I can hardly, barely handle, and then gave me a voice that hides behind everything in whispers. Oh, and also put a pen in my hand which writes me into madness! How can anyone possibly understand me? But I don't think God cared about that thought, when He made me! How ridiculously unfair!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Our Western society is so deeply divided between these two approaches (moralism, self-discovery) that hardly anyone can conceive of any other way to live. If you criticize or distance yourself from one, everyone assumes you have chosen to follow the other, because each of these approaches tends to divide the whole world into two basic groups. The moral conformists say: "the immoral people -- the people who 'do their own thing' -- are the problem with the world, and moral people are the solution." The advocates of self-discovery say: "The bigoted peole -- the people who say, 'We have the Truth' -- are the problem with the world, and progressive people are the solution.”
― Timothy Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

“All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.”
― Ralph Allison

“There are no ordinary people. The blur or everyday reality has created a world in which most of us have forgotten our unique and sacred existence...it is [our] true self, once discovered, that enables us to understand more clearly the nature of our world, and our own existence.”
― Kim Chestney

“Learn to be brave and adventurous because you’ll never discover your place in the world, if you’re too afraid to leave your own backyard.”
― Nina Guilbeau

“But, astonishingly, I'm not broken. I'm not destroyed. Terrified witless, shaking, retching with fear, yes. But no longer insecure. Because during my search for how you died, I somehow found myself to be a different person. ... Living my life. And it wouldn't be my grief for you that toppled the mountain, but love.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Sister

“I shall now call myself;
I shall now call.
In the forest of my heart, seeing myself,
I shall love myself and love myself.
I shall be my own quest,
My absolute wealth.
The journey of light supreme will commence
In the heart of freedom.”
― Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey

“If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“There are times in every person’s life when they feel lonely, isolated, like maybe they don’t belong. For adoptees, this is often exacerbated by the circumstances. Because you were given up, you have a built-in scapegoat; you can blame everything that you feel on the fact that you were adopted. But, I want you to know that this is a fallacy. Finding your biological parents will not fill in the void that you feel. You will get answers to your questions, but no one can fill in the missing pieces except for you. Before you go on a search, take the time to get to know yourself very well. Heal the hurts you’ve experienced. Acknowledge the past and how it has affected you. Become a whole person who is seeking roots, not a damaged person who is seeking fulfillment.”
― Janet Louise Stephenson, Who Gives Up Adorable Little Girls Anyway?

“Make sure your subconscious knows you love it by stroking it until it purrs.”
― Teresa Sue McAdams

“What no one really talks about, though, is the main reason many of us fail with our weight loss efforts: our minds won't let us.”
― Helen M. Ryan, 21 Days to Change Your Body

“I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Maybe I didn't march to the same drummer as most people, but I could do things on my own and do them well. That was what I'd learned, little by little, in the year I turned sixteen. I was complete by myself.”
― Diane Schwemm, The Year I Turned Sixteen

“Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I know what to do to get it. I will provide for myself.”
― Marlene Van Niekerk, Agaat