Quotes About Self-discovery

Now who are you? Who have you left behind in the kitchen? What befell you Over There to give you that God-awful twitch? Are you here to try to crawl back into the skin you had before they pushed you through the mincer?

To push inward is hard, to descend even more so; it challenges our sense of who we are and where we came from. This is why, even though we are inundated with seawater, the advances of our oceanographic agencies do not match those of our space agencies.

Angst ist der Schlüssel zum Erfolg und der Hauptgrund für dein Scheitern, Angst ist das zugrunde liegende Dilemma in jeder Geschihte, die du dir über dich selbst erzählst. Und was ist die einzige Chance, die du gegen Angst hast? Folge ihr. Lass dich von ihr leiten.

Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when the whole man resonates with echoes and echoes, none becoming a real voice. —Elias Canetti, Notes from Hampstead

Me preguntaba si aquella seguridad en sí mismos era algo que podía adquirirse o si, como los padres y la piel perfecta, era algo con lo que nacías.

Todas las mujeres que habían intentado hacer de mí un hombre habían logrado lo contrario. Por eso me costaba abordar a las mujeres. Me gustaban demasiado, y me parecía demasiado a ellas para demostrar con ellas una actitud depredadora.

J.R. Moehringer

I wanted to belong to Iris when I didn't even belong to myself.

The road my elders dictate is a narrow one, and I no longer believe it to be the road to wisdom. I choose my ow road. I choose to do the right thing, as you call it. I would not choose another companion for that road, and should you choose to walk that road with me, it would be..," his voice faltered, unable to put words to Alain's feelings, but he met her eyes, trying to let his feelings show. Perhaps he succeeded this time, because once again Mari blushed and bent her head.

Almost invisible in the dark, he sighed. "Why am I doing this?" "Because you're a better person than you think you are.

Kira? Thanks." "For what?" "Being somebody I never lied to. I didn't think I could do that." "You're welcome," Kira said. "There are probably a lot of things you could do, things you could be, that you don't think you could.

Let me tell you something. Folks never know what they can do until they really have to, and then like as not they discover there's a lot more in them than they ever thought.

I just want to be like everyone else, Jason. But I can't. And I can't be like my mother, either. So what am I?" "The most amazing girl I ever met," Jason said.

You must find a place in yourself where nothing is impossible.

I looked up the road I was going and back the way I came and since I wasn't satisfied decided to step off the road and cut me a new path. -Ms. Annie Johnson as told by Maya Angelou

Sólo usted puede decidir qué le conviene y qué precio usted está dispuesto a pagar. Tal vez, en último término, lo que desea no le convenga. Pero, si le conviene, investigue qué debe hacer y póngalo en marcha.

And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.

I wish," she continued, turning back to herself, "that there was a path of words I could walk down and they would lead me into a grotto pool where I could re-purify myself and return to the girl I was. But there isn't a path, or even a girl. She's gone, and I'm stuck trying to invent who I want to be, and I'm finding that figuring out who I want to be is so much harder than just being who I was when I was a little kid.

Why do so many ...settle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them

People don't know anything about themselves because they're all worried about everybody else.

She had always given too much of her life over to relationships, and they'd never quite worked out. Now she was simplifying her life in favor of her career. It gave her a sense of control to watch herself succeeding, and a great deal of satisfaction.

Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.

As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.

We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us—which in most cases is a very long time—but to look at it as just that, a vehicle, a raft to help us cross through the waters of doubt, confusion, desire, and fear.