Quotes tagged ‘Finding Yourself’

“The truth is that I keep everyone at a distance, and it’s so fucking ironic because the truth is also that I look for comfort where it hurts.”

— Natalia Vela, thoughtcatalog.com

“Your work isn’t to change who you are; it’s to find people who are able to give you the connection you need. Because despite what you feel, you are not too much. You are not too sensitive or too needy. You are thoughtful and empathetic. You are compassionate and kind. And with or without anyone’s ac…”

— Daniell Koepke, shopcatalog.com

“Finding yourself is something you’ll be doing for the rest of your life, so make big changes and be unapologetic.”

— Savannah Brown, localwolves.com

“If making something of myself means losing myself, then what am I making?”

— Nelson George, Ezekiel Figuero, Justice Smith, imdb.com

“When you find yourself at peace, you usually feel like you’re in control. Maybe sometimes being out of control leads you to that peace.”

— Jasmine, Herself, Jasmine, youtube.com

“You are not broken, you are becoming.”

— Bianca Sparacino, shopcatalog.com

“The only way I can quiet my brain is to accept that a path isn't one answer you've got to lock onto: it's your house and/or home.”

— Anne T. Donahue, tinyletter.com

“I didn’t go to another party for a few months. (Unless, of course, you count the gigantic pity party I threw for myself on a daily basis.)”

— Jacob Geers, vox.com

“Sun Kwon: I don't think I've ever seen you angry. John Locke: [chuckles] Oh, I used to get angry - all the time, frustrated, too. Sun Kwon: You're not frustrated any more? John Locke: I'm not lost any more. Sun Kwon: How did you do that? John Locke: The same way anything lost gets found - I stopped…”

— Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse, John Locke, Terry O'Quinn, imdb.com

“I'm an ordinary man, Jack, meat and potatoes, I live in the real world. I'm not a big believer in magic. But this place is different. It's special. The others don't want to talk about it because it scares them. But we all know it. We all feel it. Is your white rabbit a hallucination? Probably. But w…”

— Christian Taylor, John Locke, Terry O'Quinn, imdb.com

“By pretending to be someone I was not, I had shown him my true self, one I had been too afraid to reveal to anyone else.”

— Kalle Oskari Mattila, nytimes.com

“I try to pull myself together and pick up the scattered jigsaw puzzle pieces of me lying all around. This is a first, I think.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“The world is a huge space, but the space that will take you in—and it doesn't have to be very big—is nowhere to be found.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Allow for the possibility that the best of you is still inside you, waiting to emerge. Prepare the way, bit by bit”

— Lin-Manuel Miranda, twitter.com

“In the vast mythology of New York, it’s the place you go to become who you always wanted to be.”

— Darcie Wilder, nytimes.com

“You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else.”

— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com

“I always feel like I’m struggling to become someone else. Like I’m trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it’s part of growing up, yet it’s also an attempt to reinvent myself. By becoming a different me, I could free myself of everything. I seriously believed…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“If you lost something/someone but you found yourself YOU WON”

— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com

“And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.”

— David Levithan, amazon.com

“'Did you find yourself?' 'What?' said my sister. 'Did you find yourself?' 'She found me,' I said.”

— Gary D. Schmidt, amazon.com