Quotes About Self-discovery

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Just as a flower does not choose its color, we are not responsible for what we have come to be. Only when you realize this do you become free.

Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that's what maturity is all about.

Life goes on once you realize your own strength inside of you: the strength to realize that saying goodbye doesn't mean that you don't love the person anymore or that you don't want to keep them in your life.

I passed a pear tree drifted with white blossoms. A fish splashed in the moonlit river. With every step I felt lighter. An emotion was swelling in my throat. It took me a moment to recognize what it was. I had been old and stern for so long, carved with regrets and years like a monolith. But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it.

I brought them to my mouth. But my courage failed. What was I truly? In the end, I could not bear to know.

For a hundred generations, I had walked the world drowsy and dull, idle and at ease. I left no prints, I did no deeds. Even those who had loved me a little did not care to stay. Then I learned that I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow. I would have done that toil a thousand times to keep such power in my hands. I thought: this is how Zeus felt when he first lifted the thunderbolt.

He is too young to know himself a prisoner.

I will eat these herbs. Then whatever is truly in me, let it be out, at last.

A word of power." "Will you teach it to me?" "Sorcery cannot be taught. You find it yourself, or you do not.

But he was a harp with only one string, and the note he played was himself.

You knew this would come. I cannot rot all my life underground, with nothing of my own.

So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself.

The thread will run smooth, whether you choose it or not. I tell you as a friend, it is better to seek it on your own terms, to make it go at your pace, than theirs.

I ran my hands over his ribbed scars, easing him as I could. The scars themselves I offered to wipe away. He shook his head. "How would I know myself?

For a hundred generations, I had walked the world drowsy and dull, idle and at my ease. I left no prints, I did no deeds. Even those who had loved me a little did not care to stay. Then I learned that I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow. I would have done that toil a thousand times to keep such power in my hands.

The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within.

But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it

Yo me había escapado y ahora estaba eufórico, disfrutando de la vertiginosa luz de la soledad. Era la primera vez que estaba solo desde hacía muchas semanas.

Now was the time to get everything back on track, to figure out who I was and what I wanted to do with the rest of my life before I got all distracted by a soul mate with a bod for sin.

You don't have to follow a religion if you listen to the divine voice within you, pay close attention to instincts and intuitions.

I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too.

I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.