Quotes About Self-discovery

Ultimately, my love saved me, for my love gave me strength. At night, when sleep was sunwilling to rescue me, I gritted my teeth and devoured my fondest memories.

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.

As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found, nor much identification from shapes which symbolize continents and states.

But to find where you are going, you must know where you are, and I didn't.

There seemed to be no cure for loneliness save only being alone.

I guess this personal hide-and-seek is not unusual. And some people are 'it' all their lives - hopelessly 'it.

What are you looking for, little man? Is it yourself you're trying to identify?Are you looking at little things to avoid big things?

I was afraid I had you in me. No, I haven't. I'm my own. I don't have to be you. I just know. It just came to me whole. If I'm mean, it's my own mean.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Na jaren van zwoegen merken we dat we geen reis maken, maar dat de reis on maakt. Reisleiders, dienstregelingen, reserveringen, star en onvermijdelijk, doen hun uiterste best om de persoonlijkheid van de reis te slopen.

When you're a child you're the centre of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to. But when you grow up you take your place and you're your own size and shape. Things go out of you to others and come in from other people. It's worse, but it's much better too.

Oh! Alice in Wonderland. You're too big for that.

If it troubles us it must be that we find the trouble in ourselves.

My father made a mold and forced me into it," Adam said. "I was a bad casting but I couldn't be remelted. Nobody can be remelted. And so I remained a bad casting

Having broken out of his own Spartanism, he

tone. "All right," she said, "but how do I go about being a boy?

Cada viaje, safari o exploración es una entidad, diferente de todos los demás viajes. Tiene personalidad, temperamento, individualidad, carácter único. Un viaje es una persona en sí; no hay dos iguales. Y los planes, las salvaguardas, el control y la coerción son todos infructuosos. Descubrimos tras años de lucha que no hacemos un viaje: nos hace él a nosotros.

Through his portrayal of Jim Nolan's self-discovery of his leadership capabilities in In Dubious Battle, Steinbeck is making a case for the recognition of his own talent.

Hayatlar?m?z bizden ayr?l?nca nas?l yaÅŸayabiliriz? GeçmiÅŸimiz olmadan kendimizi nas?l tan?yaca??z? Hay?r, hay?r. B?rak kals?n. Yak gitsin.

Damn you, I want to think. I'll want to take this off alone where I can pick it apart and see. Maybe you've tumbled a world for me. And I don't know what I can build in my world's place.

You are all of twenty and very much feeling your womanhood. The strange thing about womanhood is that it goes on and on--the same daily burden of constant vague expectation and of everything being just slightly disappointing compared with what one knows one has inside oneself waiting to be touched off. It's rather like being a set of pretty little logs that won't quite catch fire, isn't it?

be what you are. Don't try to be Sally or Johnny or Fred next door; be yourself.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.