CURATED COLLECTION

Finding Yourself

Not all who wander are lost — but some of us are, and these quotes know that feeling intimately.

50 quotes found

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He was more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

—Emily BrontëNovelist & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Our roots are in the earth, our songs are the leaves, reaching for the sky.

—Amparo OchoaActivist

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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I am the river, and you are its shores.

—Julia de BurgosPoet & Activist

Early Modern ERA • Caribbean

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In His love, I am lost and found. My existence is but a whisper in His vastness.

—Aisha al-BaunniyyaPoet, Scholar & Author

Medieval ERA • MENA

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The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude.

—Kate ChopinAuthor

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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I want to taste, smell, see, hear, and feel everything. I want to know everything.

—Sylvia PlathPoet & Novelist

Post-War ERA • North America

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Know that you are a universe in miniature. All that exists in the world is within you.

—Nizami GanjaviEpic Poet

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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The Patagonia of my childhood is a geography of the soul.

—Delia DomínguezPoet

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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We travel to know the geography of the soul.

—Mahmoud DarwishPoet

Late Modern ERA • MENA

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I have crossed an ocean. I have lost my tongue. From the root of the old one, a new one has sprung.

—Grace NicholsPoet

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, wherever that may be.

—Bienvenido SantosNovelist & Writer

Post-War ERA • Southeast Asia

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Lithuania, my fatherland! You are like health.

—Adam MickiewiczPoet

Industrial Age ERA • Eastern Europe

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My heart burns with love, yet my lips are sealed by custom and fear.

—Zeynep HatunPoet

Renaissance ERA • MENA

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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves?

—Betty FriedanFeminist Writer & Activist

Post-War ERA • North America

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There is a deep hunger in all of us, a craving for stories that reflect our own.

—Akwaeke EmeziAuthor

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

—Federico García LorcaPoet & Playwright

Early Modern ERA • Southern Europe

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The forest breathes, and in its breath, you can hear the ancient heart of Russia.

—Boris PilnyakNovelist

Early Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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We read books to find out who we are. What you see, that is you.

—Ursula K. Le GuinAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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If I find in myself desires which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

—C.S. LewisWriter & Theologian

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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I want to do something splendid... something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead.

—Louisa May AlcottNovelist & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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