Lisa Unger Quotes

You come to the city, and you have a chance to find out who you really are.

Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.

The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure.

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never travelled at all! It was a journey from here to Here.

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.

I did not lose myself all at once.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

For now it seems that by advancing into unknown territories, I entered into my life

Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them.

There's no journey worth taking except the journey through one's self. That's the most important journey you take. I found that out as I went around the world many times: I was learning about me.

Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher I am become, staying in this benighted place). From the moment we are conceived it is the pattern in our blood and our bones are printed through with it like sticks of seaside rock. Nora, on the other hand, says that she’s surprised anyone knows who they are, considering that every cell and molecule in our bodies has been replaced many times over since we were born.

Half my life is an act of revision.

For me, my life is a journey.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

Life is a re-discovery.

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.

I tell all my younger friends, 'Don't be afraid of change. That is when you truly see what your destiny is.'

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.