Quotes About Self-discovery

Aprender a estar sola, sin ser un náufrago, y lograr que las voces que acuden a esa soledad sean compañeras.

In a world of beings who don't exist, who self-destruct and erase themselves, perhaps one should make a valiant effort to at least draw oneself. Maybe that's where all the sex comes from- to feel real.

Man findet sich, indem man sich verliert

Understand yourself, accept yourself, but do not be yourself.

Ben Stone: [to Meredith] You have a freak flag. You just don't fly it.

You are not your partner. His issues are not your issues. His behavior is not your behavior. His destructiveness does not prove that anything is wrong with you. You are separate people.

But at the time I had that strange confidence, born of watching a good movie, that I could be something different from what I was...

We know we are very special. Yet we keep trying to find out in what way: not this way, not that way, then what way?

Mas não quero resposta, quero ficar só. Gosto muito das pessoas mas essa necessidade voraz que às vezes me vem de me libertar de todos. Enriqueço na solidão: fico inteligente, graciosa e não esta feia ressentida que me olha do fundo do espelho. Ouço duzentas e noventa e nove vezes o mesmo disco, lembro poesias, dou piruetas, sonho, invento, abro todos os portões e quando vejo a alegria está instalada em mim.

Fico tomando sol porque não posso tomar o homem que amo", pensou mastigando mais energicamente. E Ana Clara? As coisas que tomava seriam para substituir o casaco de onça? O Jaguar? E se fosse simplesmente porque não conheceu o sol, a infância, Deus. "Tudo que tive e ainda tenho, tão triste ir buscar lá fora o que devia estar aqui dentro.

Quanto mais firo os que amo mais vou ferindo a mim mesma. Perco os outros e me perco, não é curioso isso? Marfa acha que só poderei me encontrar fazendo psicanálise. — Você vai se encontrar sem precisar dessas muletas, Raíza. Vai se salvar sem precisar de qualquer ajuda, estou certo disso. Um dia, de repente, dará consigo mesma e não se perderá nunca mais. Antes, terá que dar voltas e voltas até tomar o caminho certo, talvez demore um pouco.

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.

Cool isn't for sale at the bondage store. You make it up yourself, pull it outta your asshole, your own unique brand that starts when you're born, and when you die, it's gone.

You and me," she says, "we're two sides of the same coin. Gender's a box you turn inside out, tear up, and sew a gown out of." She says most people are bored and hateful because they can't fuck with the box. They think prison's protection. They take what they're served and think they like it, but deep down they want to be something else, and they'll kill anyone sewing gowns they're afraid to wear.

Like any hidden talent that you've either consciously or unconsciously known was there but didn't feel comfortable bringing out, once you accept the fact that wanting is part of you, and that doing it is really okay, it becomes fun. Joy starts to flow. You begin to vibrate differently, for when you are in joy with Life you cannot vibrate negatively and you cannot attract negatively, only positively.

It still comes as a shock to realize that I don't write about what I know, but in order to find out what I know. —PATRICIA HAMPL If

Often he says that practicing Buddhism is unnecessary. Everyone can find the keys to a purposeful and moral life within their own culture and religious framework.

I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.

Paulo Coelho gives you the inspiration to follow your own dreams by seeing the world through your own eyes and not someone else's.

A dangerous woman delves deeply into the truth of who she is, grounds herself daily in the healing and empowering love of God, and radically engages with the needs of the world.

My dance on the pedestal was my friendship with Maureen. I wasn't sure how I had lost my balance and fallen off. Or whether I was pushed. Everyone around me was trying to get me to dance again. The thing was, I hadn't quite given up on getting back up there. I still believed it was the only place where I could be happy.

Money itself isn't the problem. Money itself isn't bad or good. Money itself doesn't have power or not have power. It is our interpretation of money, our interaction with it, where the real mischief is and where we find the real opportunity for self-discovery and personal transformation.

When you discard your own pettiness, center yourself in integrity, and reach into your soul for your greatness, it is always there.

The exhausting manipulation and control it takes to protect an identity based on circumstances will crush our hearts and hide the best of who we are behind a wall of insecurity.