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Self-discovery Quotes

"Through others we become ourselves"
Lev Vygotsky
"The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning"
Michel Foucault
"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."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"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"
Shonda Rhimes
"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"
Shonda Rhimes
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself"
Soren Kierkegaard
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go"
T. S. Eliot
"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time"
T. S. Eliot
"The things that we love tell us what we are."
Thomas Aquinas
"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another"
Toni Morrison
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"
William Blake
"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."
William Faulkner
"The city was so overwhelming it left you lost even from yourself"
David Benioff
"Eat, Pray, Love"
Elizabeth Gilbert
"Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation"
Elizabeth Gilbert
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