“The bulk of life is discovering who you are—and then reconciling that with who you wish you were.”— Richelle E. Goodrich
“As we travel great lengths in this world away from home, most of us come back with a clearer view on what home means. And most likely it isn’t so much about the place in itself, but more about the places and people that have made us feel AT home…”— lauren klarfeld
“Life isn’t always about finding yourself. More often than not, it’s about discovering who God created you to be.”— David A.R. White
“Sooner or later our souls find their centre of gravity in a hot, salt-tasting kiss and a trembling touch. Trembling is a good sign: it means you’re open to a world that knows you’re coming.”— Louise Carey
“You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core.”— Sarah Dessen
“The biggest mistake people make in life is trying to be someone else. They never find themselves, so they never love themselves. Instead they find somebody else who they like a lot and try to be them.”— Stephen Lovegrove
“Always remember it’s never about the other, the whole effort is to find your true self ‘through’ the other. In fact whenever your focus shifts from YOU to the other, there is bondage which will result in pain and anguish. The other is just a medium through which you can reach your interiority. Never be obsessed for them, for that would lead to a self invited hell.”— Ramana Pemmaraju
“While you’ll feel compelled to charge forward it’s often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.”— Rasheed Ogunlaru
“I am a lonely figure when I run the roads. People wonder how far I have come, how far I have to go. They see me alone and friendless on a journey that has no visible beginning or end. I appear isolated and vulnerable, a homeless creature. It is all they can do to keep from stopping the car and asking if they can take me wherever I’m going.I know this because I feel it myself. When I see the runner I have much the same thoughts. No matter how often I run the roads myself, I am struck by how solitary my fellow runner appears. The sight of a runner at dusk or in inclement weather makes me glad to be safe and warm in my car and headed for home. And at those times, I wonder how I can go out there myself, how I can leave the comfort and warmth and that feeling of intimacy and belonging, to do this distracted thing.But when finally I am there, I realise it is not comfort and warmth I am leaving, not intimacy and belonging I am giving up, but the loneliness that pursues me this day and every day. I know that the real loneliness, the real isolation, the real vulnerability, begins long before I put on my running shoes.”— George Sheehan
“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“You have to be selfish with who you are to stop wanting in your relationship with yourself.”— Unarine Ramaru
“Perhaps we are all shells; but some of us have found the pearls inside, and this makes all the difference!”— C. JoyBell C.
“Your voice has haunted every inch of my soul since the last time I heard it…my world had been so dark, void of sound and then I heard you sing again—and it exploded. Everything came crashing down on me that I’d been holding in, and then I was just a mess. But I wasn’t suffering in silence anymore. I was suffering from the impenetrable sound of your voice on repeat in my head.”— Cassandra Giovanni
“It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.”— Criss Jami
“I will come back to you, I swear I will;And you will know me still.I shall be only a little tallerThan when I went.”— Edna St. Vincent Millay
“When you’re unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don’t think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin’ on himself and start payin’ attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.”— Tom Robbins
“He gave himself to them completely, with no guilt, no shame, no reservation, and in that surrender he found a quiet, shining pearl he had never known existed – himself. He was Sam. He was Sunshine. He was Peaches.”— Heidi Cullinan