I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.
Steve ToltzTags: self-discovery self-awareness
It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.
Sarah DessenTags: self-discovery
I've heard people say that they lose themselves in a kiss. But in that moment, it was the opposite for me. I felt like I found myself. Not how I wished I was, or who I was afraid I was becoming, but who I really was.
Kelley SkovronTags: love kissing self-discovery kisses
The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.
Floriano MartinsTags: identity self self-discovery introspection enemy
When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. [...] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love.
Michael JacksonTags: love courage self-discovery feelings
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them
Thomas MertonTags: truth friendship love self-discovery trust
Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.
E.L. KonigsburgTags: be-yourself self-discovery
It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here.
Luci SwindollTags: inspirational curiosity self-discovery daring aspirations
Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.
Hugo HamiltonTags: identity self-discovery growth character
People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent.
Hugo HamiltonTags: innocence past future growing-up history identity self-discovery growth character maturity personality personal-history heritage predispositions
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