Quotes About Self-discovery

I don't want to marry again. I did that.

I don't think I will get married," Polly said as she stood up. "I'm going to train to be a hero instead.

You go and find who you really are, and don't let anyone stop you.

Bye, pet. You go and find who you really are, and don't let anyone stop you.

I didn't ask to be a witch.' Chrestomanci looked at him with faint, chilly surprise. 'Didn't you?' The way he said it made Charles actually wonder, for a moment, if he had somehow chosen to be born a witch.

Em primeiro lugar, leia sempre tudo cuidadosamente. A forma deve lhe dizer muito, quer seja pra auto-realização ou autodescoberta ou simples encantamento, ou um misto de ação e fala. Quando decidir isso, reveja tudo e defina que partes significam o que dizem e que partes são incluídas como quebra-cabeça. Você está chegando aos tipos mais poderosos.

So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.

I'd expected that I would expand to fit the experience automatically, that I would get my first glimpse of the person I was destined to be.

So tell me about yourself. What are your favourite books? What do you dream about? Whom do you love?

By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something that happened an eternity ago, at the beginning of time. We live like latecomers at the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the beginning from the shape of later events.

A child is not an empty vessel, Fleet, to be formed in whatever way the parent thinks fit. They are born with their own hearts and they cannot be made otherwise, no matter what love a man lavishes on them.

It's more about what this training teaches a man about himself than a skill he'll take with him into the groups or into combat," Captain Shields added.

We have problems all over the world today, because men cease to be individuals. We like to identify with everything other than ourselves. We like to identify with groups, races, religions, you hear it every day. 'I'm Italian! I'm German! I'm Negro! I'm Jewish!' So what? Do you realize that when you identify with anything other than yourself, first as an individual, you have a cheap way out a lot of your own shortcomings?

To learn the way of the Buddha is to learn about oneself. To learn about oneself is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to be enlightened by everything in the world. To be enlightened by everything in the world is to let fall one's own body and mind.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.

I liked reading books that nearly killed me, books that helped tell me who I was, the son who spites his father by reading such books.

He'd come to know himself, untranslatably, through his pain.

You understand it's not a matter of strategy. I'm not talking about secrets or deceptions. I'm talking about being yourself. If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

It's the things we forget about that tell us who we are.

One must become a book before one can know what is inside it.

Something out of childhood whistles through this space, a sense of games and half-made selves, but it's not that you're pretending to be someone else. You're pretending to be exactly who you are. That's the curious thing.

But she missed simple things, parents' birthdays, a rug underfoot, nights when she didn't have to sleep in a zipped bag. She began to think she was inadequate to the strict plain shapes of churchly faith. Head pains hit her at the end of the day. They came with a shining, an electrochemical sheen, light from out of nowhere, brain-made, the eerie gleam of who you are.

Isolation is not a drawback to those who understand that isolation is the point.

What do children know? They know who they are, she said, in ways we can't know and they can't tell us.