Birth Quote by Georgette Leblanc

We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then…

— Hermann Hesse

We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were…

— Anne Lamott

I can't be found in myself; I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care…

— Hugh Prather

If that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find without.

— Doreen Valiente

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

— Ella Maillart

It is through others that we become ourselves.

— Lev S. Vygotsky

Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We're all pieces of the same ever-changing puzzle; some connected for mere seconds, some connected for life, some connected through knowledge, some through belief,…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“When we search for "ourselves" in the eyes of others, we have imprisoned our own-selves in believing that our self-worth is nothing unless others…

— Dahveed

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something…

— Thomas Szasz

“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“You don’t have to be alone. We are mostly born that way, though. We grow up being nurtured to believe that the other half…

— Tarryn Fisher